The AAMC is actively engaged in a variety of initiatives promoting the advancement of interprofessional education. Below are several of these initiatives:
Interprofessional Education Collaborative (IPEC)
In 2009, the AAMC, along with five other associations representing health professions schools, created the Interprofessional Education Collaborative (IPEC) to advance IPE.
The AAMC with five other education associations representing nursing, pharmacy, osteopathic medicine, dentistry, and public health, formed the collaborative to promote and encourage constituent efforts that advance substantive interprofessional learning experiences to help prepare future clinicians for team-based care of patients.
IPEC's report, Core Competencies for Interprofessional Collaborative Practice, outlines IPE’s core competencies that concentrate on four main domains: values and ethics, roles and responsibilities, interprofessional communication, and teams and teamwork. Those competencies are now informing innovative IPE experiences nationwide. More resources from IPEC can be found on their resources website.
MedEdPORTAL
The AAMC's journal of teaching and learning resources has a number of publications aimed at supporting team-based or collaborative care essential to training an interprofessional workforce.
Use the search feature on the MedEdPORTAL website to find publications relevant to your work.