The Woodruff Health Sciences Center (WHSC) Office of Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice (IPECP) has announced its 2023 IPECP Project Award recipients. The IPECP Project Awards provide each project team up to $10,000 to conduct work that will expand the development of IPECP innovations that enhance the WHSC strategic plan and foster relationships across WHSC schools and programs.
Initiated in 2019 as the IPECP Synergy Awards, the program was paused during the pandemic, with the 2023 projects the first to be funded since 2020. The Office of IPECP assumed the administration of the awards program when it launched in March 2022 and renamed the program to avoid confusion with the WHSC Synergy Research Awards.
"We are pleased to be able to relaunch the IPECP Project Awards program this year as part of our new WHSC Office of IPECP. The IPECP Project Awards provide WHSC faculty with the opportunity to create new or refine existing interprofessional programs across Emory's three health professional schools and with our health care partners. The goal of these awards is to make a positive impact on the health of the communities that WHSC serves," says Beth Ann Swan, co-director of the Office of IPECP.
All regular WHSC faculty are eligible to apply for IPECP Project Awards, and project teams must include members from two or more WHSC academic degree programs. The 2023 awards were required to be connected to one or more of the five Office of IPECP essential pillars:
- faculty development
- student curriculum and learning opportunities
- research
- simulation and
- clinical practice
This is a competitive awards program, with two reviewers assessing each proposal followed by discussion and consideration by the full Office of IPECP Advisory Committee.
"We were very pleased with the innovative proposals we received from faculty across the WHSC this year. We are excited to see these projects develop and support this IPECP work at Emory," says Jodie Guest, who serves as co-director of the WHSC Office of IPECP with Swan. "Our next call for proposals will focus on student engagement as we expand IPECP work across Emory."
