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As part of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) system-wide redesign to improve primary care, the Boise VAMC undertook an effort to integrate psychology, medicine, pharmacy, and nurse practitioner postgraduate training programs. Despite a shared goal in supporting interprofessional education (IPE), initial efforts to focus on curriculum development, implementation, and evaluation quickly became stalled due to a lack of understanding, differences in academic experience, and tension between disciplines. We found that we lacked the necessary theoretical underpinnings and coordinated direction for this effort. To move forward, we rededicated ourselves to the shared goal of IPE and suspended judgment of each other. Beginning with small projects that required minimal trust and coordination, we gradually increased the scope and complexity of our projects with each new success and eventually gelled as a team.
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Smith, C.S., Gerrish, W.G., Weppner, W.G. (2015). The Argument for Interprofessional Education. In: Interprofessional Education in Patient-Centered Medical Homes. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20158-0_1
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