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Interprofessional Core Curriculum

Our Interprofessional Core Curriculum is a hybrid, longitudinal, competency-based curriculum designed to create a collaborative culture amongst our future workforce. Students from various health and social care professions learn about, from, and with one another while developing specific competencies that foster collaboration in practice.

Faculty Development

Interprofessional Practice and Education are essential concepts for effective health and social care. A core factor in the success of collaborative training is the role of educators and practitioners in facilitating students to develop and apply collaborative skills in practice.

Programming

As part of the greater Indiana University community, IU IPE provides programming for those interested in learning about or engaging in interprofessional practice or education. We host workshops, training sessions, and consultations focused on designing, delivering, and evaluating interprofessional collaboration and team-based care.

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What is Interprofessional Education?

Interprofessional education is training for collaboration. Working with professions outside your area of study is an aspect of everyday life. For a nurse, interprofessional education could mean training to work with social workers and educators. For a doctor, it could mean training to work with a physician assistant and dentists.

A patient often has complex needs that someone from one specific profession cannot meet. Taking individuals from different professions and training them to collaborate with the patient has been shown to improve patients' lives and increase job satisfaction amongst healthcare providers.

IU IPEs’ goal is to ensure every IU student who experiences the Interprofessional Core Curriculum is prepared for collaborative work with others from health and social care professions to improve the lives of people and populations.

Who is involved with IU IPE?

IU IPE serves all IU campuses’ across the entire state of Indiana. We are also fortunate to have many external partners in our efforts. The interprofessional curriculum and activities of IU IPE also engage faculty and students from:

Butler University College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

Purdue University College of Pharmacy

Ball State University

St. Marys of the Woods College

University of Evansville

Manchester University

University of St. Francis

IU IPE

The Indiana University Interprofessional Practice and Education Center is building a community of people who learn and work together to address Indiana’s health priorities. We strive to improve Hoosiers’ lives through interprofessional education, collaboration, and teamwork.