Mission

FAU is a Founding Member of the Florida IPE Consortium.

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Florida Atlantic University is proud to be one of the founding institutions of the Florida Interprofessional Education Consortium. The Consortium brings together universities across the state to collaborate on advancing the value, evidence, and importance of interprofessional education and practice.

History

  • 2008 — Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing faculty Drs. Keller and Eggenberger approached the Medical School faculty Dr. Luck and Mr. Goldstein (then the University of Miami at FAU) to conduct IPE activities for nursing and medical students
  • 2011 — Drs. Michele Hawkins (Social Work), Joseph Ouslander (Medicine), and Ruth Tappen (Nursing), and Steering Committee established IPE Program. Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine opens at FAU and IPE program expands to include the School of Social Work. An organizational model based on directors, Associate Directors, and program assistants was established. Foundational Level programming established for medical, nursing, and social work students
  • 2013 — Office of the Provost established Office of Interprofessional Education (OIPE)
  • 2016 — Provost Office supported an interprofessional team to attend the T3 Train-the-Trainer Interprofessional Team Development Program for faculty (nursing, medicine, social work, educational leadership & instructional technology) at the University of Virginia (UVA) at Charlottesville. This group was charged with the development of the charter for the Office of Interprofessional Education, facilitator training, curriculum, and implementation of programming for the following year
  • 2017 — Formal OIPE partnership established with Palm Beach Atlantic University's Lloyd L. Gregory School of Pharmacy to further collaborate with PharmD students
  • 2018 — Independent content expert reviewed OIPE's foundational level programming and recommended programmatic changes to further strengthen the program
  • 2019 — Name changed to Office of Interprofessional Education and Practice to recognize the importance of partnering with providers and community
  • 2020 — Programming increased from 3 to 10 interprofessional activities resulting in more than a 100% increase in student participation

IPE Competencies

An Interprofessional Educational Collaborative (IPEC) in 2011 identified four competencies domains to be taught within the professions. The domains included: values/ethics for interprofessional practice, roles/responsibilities, interprofessional communication, and teams/teamwork. The expert panel that developed these competencies included the following: American Association of Colleges of Nursing, American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine, American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy, American Dental Education Association, Association of American Medical Colleges, and Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health.

The updated competencies (2016) are focused on the Triple Aim and improving Population Health through interprofessional collaborative practice. The four general competencies are aligned under the central domain of interprofessional collaboration. This update expanded to include 9 additional supporting institutional members including the Council on Social Work Education.

To learn more about the original report (2011) and the updated reports (2016 & 2023), please click on the links below:

Terminology

Interprofessional Education

“When students from two or more professions learn about, from, and with each other to enable effective collaboration and improve health outcomes.”

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Interprofessional Collaborative Practice

“When multiple health workers from different professional backgrounds work together with patients, families, carers’, and communities to deliver the highest quality of care.”

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Interprofessional Teamwork

“The levels of cooperation, coordination, and collaboration characterizing the relationships between professions in delivering patient-centered care.”

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Interprofessional Team-Based Care

“Care delivered by intentionally created, usually relatively small work groups in health care who are recognized by others as well as by themselves as having a collective identity and shared responsibility for a patient or group of patients (e.g., rapid response team, palliative care team, primary care team, and operating room team).”

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Contact Us

Dr. Terry Eggenberger

Director

Email: teggenbe@health.fau.edu

Aloha Balza Montes

Assistant Director

Email: abalza1@fau.edu

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