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Objectives: To describe the development and validation of an instrument designed to assess student perceptions of physician-pharmacist interprofessional clinical education (SPICE).

Methods: Faculty members from pharmacy and medical schools developed items for the instrument, and 179 medical and pharmacy students completed the scale. Psychometric properties, including reliability and construct validity, were assessed using confirmatory factor analysis.

Toolkit:

• Good/bad team videos
• Cases for analysis
• Team Comittment Form
• Interprofessional Team Reasoning Algorithm 

This document is a summary of discussions, key recommendations, and potential next steps for creating a new collaboration between the Minnesota Health Systems and the University of Minnesota Academic Health Center to improve the education and training of health professionals developed at the Community University Board - Academic Health Center Retreat on September 24, 2012.