Interprofessional Collaborative Practice (IPCP)
Individual and Team Paced Collaborative Learning
Interprofessional Collaborative Practice (IPCP) is a 7-week Spring semester course required of health professions students from dental, medical, nursing, pharmacy, physical therapy, and physician assistant programs at CU Anschutz. There may also be students participating from the anesthesiology assistant program or from public health. Weekly sessions are 2 hours long and include team discussion, active learning, student reflection, and team submissions. We use a team-paced learning method to engage learners in the exploration of IPEC Competency domains:
Interprofessional Collaborative Practice Course Outcomes & Objectives:
Describe the process of team development, and the roles and practices of effective teams
- Communicate with team members to clarify each member’s responsibility in providing collaborative patient care
- Recognize components of and perform effectively on sequential and simultaneous interprofessional collaborative teams.
- Explore interprofessional communication and teamwork processes that address the goals of collaborative patient care.
- Engage health and other professionals in shared, patient-centered, population-focused problem-solving.
- Give timely, sensitive, instructive feedback to others about their performance on the team, and respond respectfully as a team member to feedback from others.
- Describe the potential impact of interprofessional collaboration on health care outcomes.
IPE Course Co-Director:
- Amy Nordon-Craft, PT, DSc, Physical Therapy Program
IPE Course Co-Director:
- Kim Indovina, MD, FACP, FHM, School of Medicine
IPE Curriculum Manager & Instructional Designer:
- Michelle Colarelli, MA, Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education
IPE Program Manager & Education Coordinator:
- Reesie Roland, Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education
IPE Academic Service Professional:
- Jennette Wooley, Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education