Discover the organizations and collaborative initiatives supporting interprofessional education and practice, offering resources and guidance to improve health care delivery.

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
CMS included a new Age Friendly Hospital Structural Measure in its FY2025 Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems final rule. The measure includes five domains with the fifth domain indicating the use of an interprofessional committee to ensure age-friendly care.

Learn about APTA's national initiatives that support team-based practice and provide resources for clinicians working in interprofessional settings.

National Academies of Practice (Co-Sponsor)
This annual meeting and forum offers interprofessional policy discussions, networking, and resources that clinicians can use to strengthen collaboration with colleagues across health professions.

National Collaborative for Improving the Clinical Learning Environment (Member)
Publishes reports and frameworks that help clinicians and clinical educators create safer, more effective, and more equitable interprofessional learning and practice environments.

NASEM Global Forum on Innovation in Health Professional Education (Member)
Provides global perspectives and case examples on interprofessional collaboration that clinicians can apply to team-based care and quality improvement. The forum hosts two free workshops annually, with published proceedings available online.

Learn how physical therapists and physical therapist assistants are engaging in interprofessional collaborative practice.

American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. Cotreatment as a vehicle for interprofessional collaborative practice: Physical therapists and speech-language pathologists collaborating in the care of children with severe disabilities. 2017.

Annual in Therapeutic Recreation. Therapists' perception and valuing of interprofessional collaboration. 2016.

Australian Journal of Primary Health. Promoting effective interprofessional collaborative practice in the primary care setting: recommendations from Queensland physiotherapy private practitioners. 2024.

Cochrane Library. Interprofessional education: Effects on professional practice and healthcare outcomes (Review). 2013.

Frontiers. Interprofessional collaborative relationship-building model in action in primary care: A secondary analysis. 2022.

Hong Kong Journal of Occupational Therapy. Development of a new scale for the measurement of interprofessional collaboration among occupational therapists, physical therapists, and speech-language therapists. Ikeda, K., & Sasada, S. 2022.

Journal of Acute Care Physical Therapy. The Impact of COVID-19 on Interprofessional Collaborative Practice Through the Lens of Acute Care Physical Therapists. 2023.

Journal of Interprofessional Care. Allied health professionals’ perceptions of interprofessional collaboration in primary health care: An integrative review. 35(2). 2020.

Journal of Interprofessional Care. Describing the evidence linking interprofessional education interventions to improving the delivery of safe and effective patient care: a scoping review. 2023.

Journal of Interprofessional Care. Speech-language pathologist, physical therapist, and occupational therapist experiences of interprofessional collaborations. 38(2). 2023.

Journal of Research in Interprofessional Practice and Education. The barriers to interprofessional collaborative practice. 13(1). 2023.

ProQuest. Interprofessional collaboration among rehabilitation professionals. 2017.

ScienceDirect. Facilitators of effective interprofessional collaborative practice for physiotherapy private practitioners: An interpretive descriptive study. 2023.

ScienceDirect. Interprofessional collaboration in long-term care and rehabilitation: A systematic review. 2022.

The Egyptian Journal of Hospital Medicine. Self-assessment of interprofessional collaboration: Attitude and experience of pediatric physical therapists in the clinical context. 2022.

Gain insights and discover guidelines and evidence-based strategies to promote interprofessional education and enhance patient care outcomes.

IPEC. Core Competencies for Interprofessional Collaborative Practice: Version 3. 2023.

IPEC; Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation. Team-Based Competencies, Building a Shared Foundation for Education and Clinical Practice. 2011.

Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation. Transforming Patient Care: Aligning IPE with Clinical Practice Redesign. 2013.

Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation. Interprofessional Care Coordination: Looking to the Future. 2013.

Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation. Partnering with Patients, Families, and Communities: An Urgent Imperative for Health Care. 2014.

National Academies of Practice. National Academies of Practice Lexicon 3.0. 2024.

National Academy of Medicine. Core Principles & Values of Effective Team-Based Health Care. 2012.

National Academy of Medicine. Interprofessional Education for Collaboration: Learning How to Improve Health from Interprofessional Models across the Continuum of Education to Practice – Workshop Summary. 2013.

National Academy of Medicine. Measuring the Impact of Interprofessional Education (IPE) on Collaborative Practice and Patient Outcomes. 2015.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Lessons from the Field: Promising Interprofessional Collaboration Practices. 2015.

The National Collaborative for Improving the Clinical Learning Environment. Well-being Resource Compendium. 2024.

The National Collaborative for Improving the Clinical Learning Environment. Teaming Resource Compendium. 2023.

World Health Organization. Framework for Action on Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice. 2010.

World Health Organization. Interprofessional Collaborative Practice in Primary Health Care: Nursing and Midwifery Perspectives. 2013.

Access a curated selection of scholarly articles that explore and reflect on the experiences, challenges, and successes of interprofessional collaboration across various health care disciplines.

Journal of Interprofessional Care
The Journal of Interprofessional Care was renamed in 1992, formerly known as Holistic Medicine. The publication disseminates both interprofessional education and interprofessional collaborative practice in the areas of health and social care.

Journal of Interprofessional Education and Practice
The Journal of Interprofessional Education and Practice is the official journal of the National Academies of Practice. The journal publishes research and scholarly reports for an interprofessional educator and practitioner audience.

Access tools designed to measure collaboration skills among health care professionals to improve interprofessional practice.

Interprofessional Professionalism Assessment Instrument
Use this validated and reliable assessment instrument created by the Interprofessional Professionalism Collaborative to assess the professionalism of entry-level health professionals as they engage with colleagues across various health care disciplines.

National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education
This site hosts over 50 evaluation and assessment tools for interprofessional assessment. This site enables users to refine their searches by specifying the evaluator, instrument type, instrument content, access method, and data source. 

Two key resources that are advancing clarity in interprofessional education and collaborative practice are the National Academies of Practice Lexicon 3.0, which standardizes terminology within the National Academies of Practice, and the InterprofessionalResearch.Global Proposed Lexicon for the Interprofessional Field, which seeks to establish global consensus definitions across the interprofessional field.