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Growing evidence supports the position that interprofessional education (IPE) and collaborative care are essential elements of healthcare education and practice (Institute of Medicine, 2003; World Health Organization, 2010). Nonetheless, there remain significant barriers to integrating IPE experiences in meaningful and measurable ways (e.g. Freeth, Hammick, Reeves, Koppel, & Barr, 2005; Gilbert, 2005; Reeves, Goldman, Burton, & Sawatzky-Girling, 2010). The University of Virginia Interprofessional Education Initiative (UVA IPEI) is a systematic, collaborative effort by the Schools of Medicine and Nursing and the UVA Health System (University Hospital and associated clinical services) to address these barriers in order to create, assess and logically integrate IPE experiences into the education of students in the Schools of Medicine and Nursing.

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