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Transforming Patient Care: Aligning Interprofessional Education with Clinical Practice Redesign outlines a series of recommendations to align healthcare education and practice, providing immediate action steps to link interprofessional education and collaborative care.

The recommendations stem from a January 2013 Macy Conference where leaders in health professions education and healthcare delivery came together to discuss how they might align their efforts.

In April 2012, the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation convened all of its grantees working in IPE.

This monograph provides an overview of the working sessions, panel discussions and summaries of the grantees’ IPE work.

Conference proceedings from the Team-Based Competencies: Building a Shared Foundation For Education and Clinical Practice conference. The conference took place February 16-17, 2011 in Washington, D.C. and was hosted by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) and co-sponsored by the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation, the ABIM Foundation, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

This report outlines an action plan to solidify team-based competencies and advance interprofessional education.

In June 2010, the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation and The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching hosted a workshop/conference in Palo Alto, CA to advance new models for inter-professional education within the nation’s academic health centers. The two foundations believe that if nursing, medical, and other health professions students learn jointly in clinical settings, as graduates they will improve patient outcomes by working more collaboratively, communicating better with each other, and fostering a health care delivery system that assures quality and patient safety.

Malcolm Cox, MD and Mary Naylor, PhD, RN, FAAN chaired the January 2013 conference whose proceedings are recorded in this report.

As health professions education and healthcare delivery undergo rapid change, stimulated in part by the Affordable Care Act, it is critical that they not be developed in isolation. Educational reform must incorporate practice redesign, and delivery system change must include a central educational mission for transformation to endure.

Core recommendations:

This report is inspired by a vision of interprofessional collaborative practice as key to the safe, high quality, accessible, patient-centered care desired by all. Achieving that vision for the future requires the continuous development of interprofessional competencies by health professions students as part of the learning process, so that they enter the workforce ready to practice effective teamwork and team-based care. Our intent was to build on each profession’s expected disciplinary competencies in defining competencies for interprofessional collaborative practice.

The Integration of Oral Health and Primary Care Practice initiative strives to improve access to early detection and preventive interventions by expanding oral health clinical competency of primary care clinicians, leading to improved oral health.

The initiative comprises three inter-related components:

This report describes the outcomes of extensive discussions surrounding clinical education and practice placement issues undertaken by an international group of allied health educators (in audiology, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, and speech pathology) who have met since 2001 as part of Universitas 21 Health Sciences annual meetings. The report outlines key issues associated with clinical education and practice placements from an international perspective and across these four allied health professions.

The Lancet Commission, consisting of 20 professional and academic leaders from diverse countries, came together to develop a shared vision and a common strategy for postsecondary education in medicine, nursing, and public health that reaches beyond the confines of national borders and the silos of individual professions. The Commission adopted a global outlook, a multiprofessional perspective, and a systems approach. This comprehensive framework considers the connections between education and health systems.