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Many health professions schools and academic health centers are required to include IPE as a standard part of their curricula. Educators and practitioners have been creative in developing interprofessional learning opportunities but didactic and clinical experiences are often not explicitly linked, resulting in many stand-alone or short-term activities. Collaborative practice initiatives have increased but more opportunities for IPE along the didactic-to-clinical-to-practice continuum are critically needed. Further, sustainability of these efforts remains a challenge. Integrating lasting opportunities for interprofessional learning requires multi-pronged strategies, organizational commitment, flexibility and a willingness to depart from traditional models of learning. This webnair will describe instructional and organizational strategies to ensure sustainability of interprofessional education initiatives using a case example from the University of Washington focused on pediatric oral health.

Objectives: 

• Identify strategies for developing successful and sustainable interprofessional learning opportunities
• Describe how principles of organizational change may be applied to promote interprofessional learning and collaborative practice in oral health