Glossary

Collaborative practice - Multiple health workers from different professional backgrounds work together with patients, families, health care providers and communities to deliver the highest quality of care. ”It allows health workers to engage any individual whose skills can help achieve local health goals.” (World Healthcare Organization 2010)

Convergence – A UT Southwestern initiative to develop and advance foundational experiences with interprofessional learning that introduce future clinicians to competencies for team-based care.

Interprofessionalism - Work occurring between or involving two or more professions.

Interprofessional collaboration - Interprofessional work involving various health and social care professionals who come together regularly to solve problems, provide services, and enhance health outcomes.

Interprofessional education - “[W]hen two or more professions learn with, about, and from each other to enable effective collaboration and improve health outcomes.” (World Healthcare Organization, 2010) Takes place in preprofessional and undergraduate health professions training programs.

Interprofessional Leadership Committee (ILC) – A UT Southwestern student organization with the mission to integrate health care professional students from all area programs in both social and professional settings, to coordinate events for all students to be involved, and to represent each individual program that disperses information from different groups to each program. ILC members aspire to form interprofessional networks and teams in the educational setting to better understand each interprofessional role to provide the best care to future patients. The ILC is sponsored by the office of Interprofessional Practice and Education (IPE).

Interprofessional learning  - Learning that arises from interaction involving members or students of two or more professions. Takes place in clinical learning environments and other care settings as part of the continuum of learning. (National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education)

Interprofessional teamwork - Work involving different health or social care professionals who share a team identity and work together closely in an integrated and interdependent manner to solve problems, deliver services, and enhance health outcomes. (National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education)

Texas Interprofessional Education (IPE) Consortium - Initially a task force, this group was formed by leadership from academic health sciences centers in the state of Texas. The purpose of the consortium is to foster cross-institutional collaboration in order to expand learning opportunities and reinforce value for IPE as a critical aspect of health professions education. The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, University of Texas at Austin, Texas A&M University Health Science Center, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, and University of North Texas Health Science Center continue to serve as the executive leadership of the organization and provide the primary funding for meetings and trainings.

South Central AIDS Education and Training Center (SCAETC) – This regional center currently works with UT Southwestern IPE on an HIV Inter-professional Education Project (HIV IPE). The SCAETC is funded by HRSA. UT Southwestern submitted a proposal to lead the SCAETC in HRSA grant funding in 2020.