The Center for Interprofessional Education (IPE) at UMB is pleased to announce an opportunity for $5,000 to $15,000 seed grants for 13-month IPE and Interprofessional Care (IPC) pilot projects.
- Proposals should be practice- or classroom-focused, with educational and evaluative components employing the IPEC Core Competencies for Interprofessional Collaborative Practice.
- Grant funds may not be used toward salary or benefit support.
The following definitions of IPE and IPC should be used when developing proposals:
Interprofessional education: "When students from two or more professions learn about, from, and with each other to enable effective collaboration and improve health outcomes." (World Health Organization, 2010)
Interprofessional team-based care: Care delivered by intentionally created, usually relatively small, work groups in health care, who are recognized by others as well as by themselves as having a collective identity and shared responsibility for a patient or group of patients.
Deadline to apply is Feb. 21, 2020.