Core Competencies for Interprofessional Collaborative Practice

Core Competencies for Interprofessional Collaborative Practice, contains expert panel recommendations on interprofessional core competencies for health professions students, delineated by four content domains, to provide integrated, high-quality care to patients within the nation’s evolving health care system. The panel also set-forth 38 specific sub-competencies that describe the essential behaviors across the four domains, and suggested learning activities consistent with the World Health Organization’s definition of interprofessional education, as shared learning among students from two or more health professions.

The expert panel was convened by the Interprofessional Education Collaborative (IPEC), a unique partnership of six associations—the American Association of Colleges of Nursing, the American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine, the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy, the American Dental Education Association, the Association of American Medical Colleges, and the Association of Schools of Public Health.