Rhode Island's Interprofessional Education Initiatives

InterprofeSSIonal work wIth medICIne: methodS and reSultS In 2008, in an effort to continue to grow student learning partnerships, we approached the Director of the Office of Medical Education and the Associate Director of Preclinical Curriculum at the Warren Alpert School of Medicine at Brown University (AMS) to discuss the potential to provide new collaborative learning opportunities for students in the health-care programs in the state. AMS embraced the proposal, and the process of working together to develop an expanded, team-based, educational program for students prior to concentrated clinical training began. We hoped to impact students early in their training so that interprofessional teamwork became the norm when they entered their clinical training.