Faculty development in interprofessional education (IPE) and interprofessional collaboration (IPC) is critical to enabling the cultural shift towards this new and expected mode of education and practice.

Interprofessional collaboration among health care teams and educators is necessary to put innovative, effective health care delivery into practice and address the complexities brought forth by the COVID-19 pandemic, the evolving healthcare delivery landscape, and the collaborative practice competencies expected by employers.

IPE is best learned when taught by the entire academic community in the context of specific disciplines and practiced at every level of education to promote critical thinking and learning for students to develop their professional identity and expand notions of themselves as thinkers, learners and members of the healthcare team.

In response to these objectives, CUNY IPER Fellows will work with leadership across campuses to develop a  university-wide model titled: Interprofessional Practice, Education & Research aCross the Curriculum at CUNY (IPER-C³), based on the successful Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) initiative, to build a sustainable system-wide faculty development and integration model for IPE across the curriculum for CUNY health-related programs and community partners.

IPER-C³ will support faculty in teaching interprofessional education in their disciplines by providing training, certification, mentoring and ongoing professional development to successfully integrate IPE into courses and experiential learning activities that prepare students to practice patient/client-centered care in a collaborative team environment.