1. Richard Valachovic, D.M.D., M.P.H.
Integrating oral and overall health care: building a foundation for interprofessional education and collaborative practice
Richard Valachovic, D.M.D., M.P.H.
President and CEO, ADEA
Board Chair, Interprofessional Education Collaborative (IPEC)

2. What is IPE? Interprofessional education occurs when:
students from two or more professions
learn about each other
from and with each other
to enable effective collaboration

3. What is IPE not meant to be?
Students simply in the same classroom
Episodic
Teaching other health professionals to perform dental procedures

4. IPE and Collaborative Practice are Game Changers
Happening quickly
Impacting all of healthcare including dentistry
Influenced strongly by market forces, including the ACA, managed care, and Medicaid

5. Some historical perspectives
Concepts have been promoted for more than 40 years
Silo’ed approaches reinforced by education and reimbursement
Majority of physicians and most pharmacists were self-employed

6. What is different now?
Market forces: Impact of Medicaid, managed care, large healthcare systems
Physicians, pharmacists and nurses now employees
Focus on “Triple Aim”:
Improving the patient experience of care
Improving the health of populations
Reducing the per capita cost of health care

7. Foundations of IPE and Collaborative Practice
FASHP: The Federation of Associations of Schools of the Health Professions
VA Health Administration PACTs:
Patient Aligned Care Teams
ACOs: Accountable Care Organizations
“Volume to Value”

8. The IPE Collaborative (IPEC)
Agreement in January 2009 to work together to:
Foster a common vision for team-based care
Promote efforts to reform health care delivery and financing consonant with that vision
Contribute to development of leaders and resources for substantive interprofessional learning

9. Four competency domains with 38 sub-competencies:
Values and ethics
Roles and responsibilities
Interprofessional communications
Teams and teamwork

10. The future of health professions education in an IPE way
Changes in health professions education, including dental hygiene, dental assisting and dentistry
Transformations in opportunities for collaborative care
Increasing domination of large health systems

11. Implementation Find ways to collaborate with other health professions
Learn from other health professions about innovations and best practices for enhancing patient safety and quality
Be open to lessons from other health professions in ways to improve patient safety and quality

12. Reminders/Cautions
Interprofessional education and collaborative, team-based health care are here to stay
We all need to get on board the IPE and collaborative care train
Patient safety and quality will improve when all health professions learn and work collaboratively with others in healthcare