Implementing a two year longitudinal interprofessional collaborative care curriculum (IPCC) across five colleges!!!

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Interprofessional education is foundational to graduating healthcare practitioners in preparation for collaborative practice. According to the Canadian Interprofessional Health Collaborative (2010), collaboration requires seven competencies: team functioning, role clarification, interprofessional communication, client/family/ community-centered care, interprofessional conflict resolution and collaborative leadership. An innovative two-year interprofessional collaborative care curriculum was implemented in September 2016 at the University of Manitoba Rady Faculty of Health Sciences involving beginning health profession students in 9 programs (N= 341) in the Colleges of Nursing, Medicine, Rehabilitation Sciences, Dentistry, and Dental Hygiene.