Terminology

Interprofessional Education

“When students from two or more professions learn about, from, and with each other to enable effective collaboration and improve health outcomes.”

WHO*

Interprofessional Collaborative Practice

“When multiple health workers from different professional backgrounds work together with patients, families, carers’, and communities to deliver the highest quality of care.”

WHO*

Interprofessional Teamwork

“The levels of cooperation, coordination, and collaboration characterizing the relationships between professions in delivering patient-centered care.”

IPEC*

Interprofessional Team-Based Care

“Care delivered by intentionally created, usually relatively small work groups in health care who are recognized by others as well as by themselves as having a collective identity and shared responsibility for a patient or group of patients (e.g., rapid response team, palliative care team, primary care team, and operating room team).”

IPEC*