IMPACT Curriculum
Health professionals around the world are pointing to care delivery by high-functioning interprofessional collaborative teams as essential to making health care safe, high quality, and patient-centered. Growing from its commitment to educate clinicians who will effectively lead these changes, the Institute is launching in 2013 an enhanced interprofessional curriculum -- IMPACT.
This Interprofessional Model for Patient and Client-centered Teams (IMPACT) is a curricular model whose goal it is to prepare the Institute’s graduates to function effectively as members of interprofessional collaborative teams, thereby leading change that will have a positive impact on patients, clients, and ultimately health care systems in which they practice.
The IMPACT curriculum will accomplish this goal by engaging students in a series of interprofessional courses and learning activities designed to facilitate their development in four core competency domains: values and ethics, teamwork, roles and responsibilities, and interprofessional communication.
The proposed curriculum will eventually include a series of three interprofessional courses crossing two years of the student’s educational program at the Institute and will involve interprofessional teams of 8-10 students engaging together in team-based and service learning activities throughout their participation in IMPACT.