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The mission of the IHI Open School is to advance health care improvement and patient safety competencies in the next generation of health professionals worldwide.

In August 2010, the Office of Academic Affiliations (OAA) issued a request for proposals to establish Centers of Excellence in Primary Care Education.  Part of VA's New Models of Care initiative, the centers utilize VA primary care settings to develop and test innovative approaches to prepare physician residents and students, advanced practice nurse and undergraduate nursing students, and associated health trainees for primary care practice in the 21st Century. Thirty-seven VHA field facilities enthusiastically embraced this opportunity and competed for the Centers.

Working together leads to successful outcomes. This is at the core of the Geriatric Interdisciplinary Team (GITT) initiative. GITT is a resource of the Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing (HIGN). Recognizing that older adults with multiple conditions rely on health care professionals from a variety of disciplines, the initiative was created in 1995 to improve care by enhancing the interdisciplinary training of health profession students and professionals.

This guide, developed by the National Center, lists and links to resources which can help organizations form interprofessional teams, evaluate interprofessional team functioning, and also gives examples of effective interprofessional teams.

This guide, developed by the National Center, lists and links to resources which can help organizations implement interprofessional education activities in existing curricula.

Oral Health Nursing Education and Practice Newsletter, Summer 2014.

A portal for care teams seeking to increase patient engagement

The Education to Practice Tool Kit is a comprehensive reference that contains a collection of tools that may be used when implementing an interprofessional initiative in an clinical or educational setting. This Tool Kit is presented in two different formats: