IU IPE Releases 2024–2025 Interprofessional Core Curriculum Annual Report

Mar 04, 2026
Interprofessional Practice and Education Center 2024–2025 Interprofessional Core Curriculum Annual Report cover, featuring collaborative healthcare teams in educational and clinical learning environments with icons representing teamwork, innovation, and patient care.
The Interprofessional Core Curriculum (IP Core) was designed with a clear premise: collaboration is a skill set that must be developed over time.

IP Core operates as a hybrid-longitudinal model: a curriculum in which students progress through four structured stages that move from a foundational understanding of values and ethics to applied, team-based behaviors in increasingly complex settings.

Measured Development

Assessment of student learning follows a modified Kirkpatrick framework, examining:

Learner reaction
Attitude change
Knowledge and skill acquisition
Demonstrated behavior change

In Stage 1, learner reaction scores averaged above 4.7 on a 5-point scale, reflecting strong engagement with foundational concepts of interprofessional collaboration 

Stage 2 team competency scores averaged in the mid-4 range across communication, leadership, mutual support, and situation monitoring, indicating meaningful development of applied collaborative skills

By Stage 3, behavioral indicators of collective competence averaged above 4.2, reinforcing the curriculum’s longitudinal impact 

Across Stages 1–3, students demonstrated continued growth in core collaborative competencies, including interprofessional communication, leadership, mutual support, situation monitoring, and role clarity within team environments.

One Stage 2 student reflected on their experience working in a team-based scenario:

“It did seem like people just wanted to make a difference and wanted to help… People just want to help and they just want to make the world a better place.” 

Stage 1 focuses on why collaboration matters.
Stage 2 emphasizes structured skill-building.
Stage 3 advances collective competence, requiring learners to function as part of coordinated teams.

The curriculum’s design intentionally reinforces these competencies over time, recognizing that collaborative practice is strengthened through repetition, reflection, and application.

The report also outlines facilitator engagement and statewide implementation efforts that support consistency across disciplines and campuses.

The 2024–2025 outcomes reflect a continued emphasis on measurable development and intentional curriculum design.

The full annual report has been made available to our partner programs and will soon be available to the public.  

Media Contact

IU School of Medicine

Rory Appleton

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