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This editorial calls attention to a major U.S. interprofessional initiative, the Interdisciplinary Professional Educational Collaborative (IPEC), designed to introduce continuous quality improvement into interdisciplinary health professions education. Continuous quality improvement thinking and methods are now widespread in U.S. health care delivery.

In this editorial, the authors discuss three distinct, yet overlapping, fields – continuing education (CE), interprofessional education (IPE) and workplace learning (WPL) – can inform each other and extend our conceptual, theoretical and empirical understanding of continuing interprofessional education (CIPE) in the workplace. There are substantial challenges to achieving the aims as the individual fields continue to evolve (and contain areas of variation and contestation) over their definitions, use of theories and deployment as educational interventions in the healthcare system.

This editorial describes a supplement of the Journal of Interprofessional Care (JIC) which contains the 380 abstracts accepted for Collaborating Across Borders III (CAB III), a biennial US-Canadian conference, which was held in Tucson, Arizona on November 19-21, 2011.

In an earlier editorial, Dr. Virginia Tilden wrote about the national momentum toward interprofessional education (IPE) and the “tides of change” that have rapidly increased opportunities for nurse leaders to shape this agenda. The common goal of improving patient care through IPE has forged a high level of collaboration among education and practice leaders, potential funders and government.

This editorial provides an overview to a special issue of the Journal of Interprofessioinal Care which focuses on clinical decision making experiences in a variety of settings and illness circumstances, expanding the understanding of models of decision making proposed, identifying gaps, and ultimately helping to determine when, where, why and in what form shared decision making matters for better care.

This editorial provides an overview to a special issue of the Journal of Interprofessioinal Care focusing on the work of Dr. DeWitt C. "Bud" Baldwin, Jr.  Through the interview and (re)publication of a few of Dr. Baldwin's papers, we hope to acquaint the readership of the Journal with some of his seminal work, completed mostly in the late 1960s and 1970s, which, in many respects, is as relevant today as when originally written.

This editorial provides an overview to a special issue of the Journal of Interprofessioinal Care focusing on interprofessional approaches to patient safety.  The author asserts that the diversity of the contributions to this edition of the journal bears witness to the vibrancy of thinking and development aimed at providing safe, high quality, collaborative care for patients and clients around the globe.

The collective resolve of funding agencies, universities, and investigators is required to change the "conventional wisdom" that governs policies of recognition and reward so that the culture within which we conduct research is one that fosters the cutting edge potential of intra- and interdisciplinary collaborative circles and teams rather than discredits and undermines their work together.

This editorial celebrates the tenth anniversary of the Journal of Interprofessional Care.

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Interprofessional efforts have never been "mainstream." Although other disciplines have valued interprofessional activities, there has been little interest in interprofessional efforts by organized medicine; too often, interprofessional efforts have depended on individual, personal commitment and experience.
Many factors in health care delivery have converged to generate a renewed, more mainstream interest in interprofessional practice models.