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

Health Professions Accreditors Collaborative
The Health Professions Accreditors Collaborative represents members of the Association of Specialized and Professional Accreditors, including the Commission on Accreditation in Physical Therapy Education and the American Board of Physical Therapy Residency & Fellowship Education. The Collaborative provides an opportunity for educational program accreditors to ensure standards, policies and procedures support graduates of health profession education programs for interprofessional collaborative practice.

Learn how APTA partners with leading organizations to help faculty bring interprofessional education into classrooms and clinical training.

Interprofessional Education Collaborative (Member Organization)
A national coalition that advances interprofessional learning and collaborative practice across the health professions. Participation supports APTA’s engagement in developing shared competencies, resources, and strategies that strengthen team-based education and care.

National Academies of Practice (Co-Sponsor)
An interprofessional meeting that brings together educators, clinicians, and policymakers, offering sessions and networking that faculty can draw on to embed collaborative practice themes in teaching.

Collaborating Across Borders (Co-Sponsor)
A major North American conference dedicated to interprofessional education, practice, and research, where educators gain practical examples of IPE integration, innovative teaching models, and strategies to prepare students for team-based care.

Federation of Associations of Schools of Health Professions (Liaison Member)
A collaborative of health professions education associations that develops shared principles for curriculum and assessment. Educators can use these resources to align physical therapy curricula with broader interprofessional education standards.

National Collaborative for Improving the Clinical Learning Environment (Member)
A national initiative focused on strengthening interprofessional training in clinical settings, where educators can access reports, frameworks, and case examples to enhance student readiness for collaborative practice during clinical education.

NASEM Global Forum on Innovation in Health Professional Education (Member)
A forum of educators, researchers, and professional organizations advancing innovation in health professions education worldwide. The forum hosts two free workshops each year, with proceedings that educators can use to integrate emerging interprofessional education models into PT and PTA programs.

Utilize these tools to provide structured guidance for integrating and strengthening interprofessional education in DPT curricula.

Interprofessional Education and Practice Special Interest Group of the APTA Academy of Education
This special interest group serves as a resource and forum for members of the Academy who value and champion interprofessional education and collaborative practice in all facets of the physical therapy profession. A range of resources is available, including a list of IPE organizations, educational resources, practice resources, assessment recommendations, and journals.

American Council of Academic Physical Therapy Blueprint of Excellence
This digital document is a paid guide for doctor of physical therapy programs on how to achieve excellence and includes a chapter on interprofessional education and collaborative practice, written by an interprofessional team of health care professionals/educators.

Gain insights and explore detailed documents and studies that offer guidelines and evidence-based strategies to promote interprofessional education and enhance patient care outcomes.

Health Professions Accreditors Collaborative. Guidance on developing quality interprofessional education for the health professions. 2019.

InterprofessionalResearch.Global. 2022 Global IPE Situational Analysis Results Final Report. 2022.

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 Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Developing and Sustaining Effective Interprofessional Primary Care Teams. 2025.

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

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.

The National Collaborative for Improving the Clinical Learning Environment. Interprofessional Clinical Learning Environment Workshop Report. 2021.

The National Collaborative for Improving the Clinical Learning Environment. The Role of Clinical Learning Environments In Preparing New Clinicians to Engage in Quality Improvement Efforts to Eliminate Health Care Disparities. 2019.

The National Collaborative for Improving the Clinical Learning Environment. Achieving the Optimal Interprofessional Clinical Learning Environment: Proceedings from an NCICLE Symposium. 2017.

The National Collaborative for Improving the Clinical Learning Environment. The Role of the Clinical Learning Environment in Preparing New Clinicians to Engage in Patient Safety. 2017.

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 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.

The following tools are designed to help PTs, PTAs, and educators evaluate institutional capacity, explore IPE learning activities, and apply the IPEC Core Competencies to strengthen interprofessional education and collaborative 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.

IPEC Institutional Assessment Instrument
An instrument to assess institutional capacity for high-quality programmatic IPE.

National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education
This site hosts over 50 evaluation and assessment tools for interprofessional assessment. Users can 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.