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Providing comprehensive healthcare services to uninsured farmworkers and families in the community, offering inclusive playdates to children with complex communication and motor needs and delivering courses to build resilience in healthcare providers are just a few of the exceptional interprofessional education (IPE) and interprofessional collaborative practice (IPCP) initiatives that have led to a prestigious national recognition for UCF’s Academic Health Sciences Center (AHSC).
The AHSC was honored with the Award for Institutional Excellence and Innovation in Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Health Care by the Association of Schools Advancing Health Professions (ASAHP), a national professional organization of universities and employers that focuses on critical issues affecting health professions. The award recognizes an institution that has excelled in IPE and IPCP — principles based on the idea that collaboration will increase the efficiency and effectiveness of delivery systems to promote team-based, family- and patient-centered healthcare.
“When healthcare professionals work together as a team, the patient always gets better care,” says Deborah German, UCF’s vice president for health affairs and dean of the College of Medicine. “Our faculty are committed to creating that kind of experience for all of our students.”
The AHSC is comprised of the College of Medicine, College of Health Professions and Sciences, College of Nursing and Student Health Services. UCF’s approach is especially impactful in the way it integrates education, research and patient care seamlessly for students and the community, creating a dynamic ecosystem that fosters collaboration, innovation and excellence.
To learn more about the award, please visit https://www.ucf.edu/news/ucf-honored-nationally-for-interprofessional-health-education-excellence/
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