A multi-institutional framework for building, sustaining, and evaluating a comprehensive interprofessional education curriculum

Abstract

Introduction: Challenges in designing institutional interprofessional education (IPE) curricula without an inventory, criterion-based evaluation, or process to categorize and scaffold experiences result in a significant need for models in action. Methods: This report presents the process, framework, and key insights gained from three institutions’ efforts to develop sustainable, criterion-based interprofessional education curricula. Results: The proposed framework was successfully implemented by the three author institutions, with four components to define, build, sustain, and evaluate a comprehensive IPE curriculum. Discussion: The actionable IPE framework offers a flexible approach applied in the context of one's own institution and may serve as a guiding model for other new, growing, and established IPE programs. Conclusion: The authors encourage other institutions to consider the framework and lessons learned shared in this report to advance the pace and intentionality of their own development, then in turn further contribute their lessons learned through progressively expanding cross-institution collaborations.