IPEC Core Competencies
VALUES AND ETHICS
Work with team members to maintain a climate of shared values, ethical conduct, and mutual respect.
VE1. Promote the values and interests of persons and populations in health care delivery, One Health, and population health initiatives.
VE3. Uphold the dignity, privacy, identity, and autonomy of persons while maintaining confidentiality in the delivery of team-based care.
VE4. Value diversity, identities, cultures, and differences.
VE5. Value the expertise of health professionals and its impacts on team functions and health outcomes.
VE6. Collaborate with honesty and integrity while striving for health equity and improvements in health outcomes.
VE7. Practice trust, empathy, respect, and compassion with persons, caregivers, health professionals, and populations.
VE8. Apply high standards of ethical conduct and quality in contributions to team-based care.
VE9. Maintain competence in one’s own profession in order to contribute to interprofessional care.
VE10. Contribute to a just culture that fosters self- fulfillment, collegiality, and civility across the team.
ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Use the knowledge of one’s own role and team members’ expertise to address individual and population health outcomes.
RR1. Include the full scope of knowledge, skills, and attitudes of team members to provide care that is person-centered, safe, cost-effective, timely, efficient, effective, and equitable.
RR2. Collaborate with others within and outside of the health system to improve health outcomes.
RR3. Incorporate complementary expertise to meet health needs including the determinants of health.
RR4. Differentiate each team member’s role, scope of practice, and responsibility in promoting health outcomes.
RR5. Practice cultural humility in interprofessional teamwork.
COMMUNICATION
Communicate in a responsive, responsible, respectful, and compassionate manner with team members.
C1. Communicate one’s roles and responsibilities clearly.
C2. Use communication tools, techniques, and technologies to enhance team function, well-being, and health outcomes.
C3. Communicate clearly with authenticity and cultural humility, avoiding discipline-specific terminology.
C4. Promote common understanding of shared goals.
C5. Practice active listening that encourages ideas and opinions of other team members.
C7. Examine one’s position, power, role, unique experience, expertise, and culture towards improving communication and managing conflicts.
TEAMS AND TEAMWORK
Apply values and principles of the science of teamwork to adapt one's own role in a variety of team settings.
TT2. Appreciate team members’ diverse experiences, expertise, cultures, positions, power, and roles towards improving team function.
TT3. Practice team reasoning, problem-solving, and decision-making.
TT4. Use shared leadership practices to support team effectiveness.
TT6. Reflect on self and team performance to inform and improve team effectiveness.
TT7. Share team accountability for outcomes.
TT8. Facilitate team coordination to achieve safe, effective care and health outcomes.
TT9. Operate from a shared framework that supports resiliency, well-being, safety, and efficacy.
Specific instructions and due dates for Spring IPE are pending