Mission
The mission of the Marshall University Center for Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice is to educate undergraduate and graduate students on the delivery of patient-centered, collaborative care so they enter health and education environments ready to contribute to the organization and delivery of improved health care outcomes for diverse patient populations across the life span.
What is interprofessional education?
Interprofessional education is “when students from two or more professions learn about, from and with each other to enable effective collaboration and improve health outcomes.” (WHO 2010). The Interprofessional Education Collaborative or IPEC works to promote and encourage interprofessional learning through multiple sources. IPEC provides the following definitions to further guide interprofessional practice.
Interprofessional Collaborative Practice
“When multiple health workers from different professional backgrounds work together with patients, families, [career], and communities to deliver the highest quality of care.” (WHO 2010)
Interprofessional teamwork
The levels of cooperation, coordination and collaboration characterizing the relationships between professions in delivering patient-centered care.
Interprofessional team-based care
Care delivered by intentionally created, usually relatively small work groups in heath care who are recognized by others as having a collective identity and shared responsibility for a patient or group of patients (e.g., rapid response team, palliative care team, primary care team, and operative room team).
Interprofessional competencies in health care
Integrated enactment of knowledge, skills, values, and attitudes that define working together across the professions, with other health care workers, and with patients, along with families and communities, as appropriate to improve health outcomes.