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The Interprofessional Education Collaborative (IPEC) organization engages six national education associations of schools of health professions, including ADEA, in collaborative efforts to, among other goals, prepare future health care professionals for interprofessional collaborative practice. IPEC has identified key challenges in the implementation of core interprofessional competencies which are foundational to successful IPE. These six challenges are as follows: 1.) institutional level challenges; 2.) lack of institutional collaborators; 3.) practical issues; 4.) faculty development issues; 5.) assessment issues, and 6.) lack of regulatory expectations. 

How do we overcome these obstacles to truly move IPE forward? All Together Now: Realizing IPE at Academic Health Centers, ADEA’s newest Leading Conversations webinar, examines these barriers to IPE implementation and describes strategies to overcome them from the perspective of the university, the academic health center and the academic dental institution.

Upon completion of the webinar, attendees will be able to:

• Identify key challenges to implementation of the IPEC core interprofessional competencies.
• Outline methods used to address key IPE challenges. 
• Investigate if/how dentistry is different than medicine, nursing, pharmacy and other health professions in the implementation of interprofessional collaborative practice.

Registration for this webinar is free of charge and open to all. Faculty, staff and administrators at academic health centers (AHC) interested in establishing IPE at their institutions, as well as leaders at health education associations committed to building capacity for IPE for their membership, are strongly encouraged to attend. 

Click here to learn more and to register for the webinar.