Guest Editorial: Interprofessional Education and Practice: A Concept Whose Time Has Come

Abstract

Empirically, there is evidence that interprofessional collaboration improves educational outcomes, quality of research, and patient and population health outcomes over any one discipline working alone. Bringing together various skills and individual experiences into a team, communication, and coordination of care are enhanced, scientific inquiry deepens and expands, and health and safety improve while meeting the needs of underserved, diverse populations is more achievable when various parties and stakeholders come together to work on a problem together.