Washington, DC 29-30 August 2012

The U.S. Institute of Medicine’s Global Forum on Innovations in Health Professional Education met on “Educating for Practice: Improving Health by Linking Education to Practice using IPE (Interprofessional education).” The workshop is free and open to the public, but registration is required. Click here for more information.

This 2-day, interactive public workshop will feature invited presentations and small-group discussions that will focus on innovations in five areas of health professionals education (HPE): curricular innovations, pedagogic innovations, human resources for health, cultural elements, and metrics.

Meeting objectives:

• To engage in forward looking dialogue around the importance of aligning health professional education with the needs of clinical practice, consumers and the healthcare delivery system.

• To explore the opportunity for shared decision-making, distributed leadership and team-based care, among other interprofessional education and practice innovations, to fundamentally change health professions curricula, pedagogy, culture, human resources, and assessment and evaluation metrics.

• To discuss how innovations in interprofessional education will impact patient and population health as identified through the “triple aim” of better health, higher quality and lower cost.

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