The Institute's goal is to promote innovative change in health care education by providing meeting participants access to leaders in the field through presentations and innovative small group discussions.

 

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The Institute for Interprofessional Prevention Education is designed to promote innovative change in health care education through the acquisition of knowledge, resources, and strategies that will introduce, or expand, interprofessional prevention initiatives on campuses and in communities.  Through a team-based approach, attendees will be given the tools to become highly visible advocates for interprofessional prevention education.

The goal of the Institution is to advance interprofessional prevention education on the campuses of academic health centers and to increase the emphasis on prevention in health professions education programs.

The Institute will select fifteen teams, each consisting of three educators from different disciplines from a single institution or cooperating academic institution, to participate in this project.  Each team must include in their application a preliminary description of the interprofessional prevention education initiative they seek to develop and a timeline for implementation of the proposed project.

Participants will gain new insights and techniques that can be applied in their own work.  Selected teams will receive funds from APTR to develop an educational and developmental project when they return to their campus.  These institutions will later be called upon to report on the outcomes of their initiatives in order to identify successful models and practices, barriers encountered through the implementation process and methods for overcoming these barriers.  Learn more about the 1st Institute for Interprofessional Prevention Education >

 

Funding

Funding for the Institute and its activities is provided in part through cooperative agreements with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion and in cooperation with the Healthy People Curriculum Task Force and the Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation.

 

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