The Meharry-Vanderbilt Alliance advances interprofessional education by creating opportunities for students and faculty to collaborate, learn, and apply their knowledge in real-world settings.
Our inter-institutional approach supports:
- Shared learning across disciplines
- Community-based, service-learning experiences
- Development of interprofessional skills and collaboration
For more information, contact: ipe@meharry-Vanderbilt.org
Featured Program: IPE Student Project
Teams of cross-disciplinary students create and implement practical solutions to address real community-defined needs.
“The IPE program provides students with an opportunity to bring their own experiences and understanding to a shared learning environment and promotes respect for fellow health professionals.” -Valeria Matlock, EdD, CCC-A, Vanderbilt Health, IPE Co-director
Health Professions Engaged: Dentistry, Medicine, Occupational Therapy, Social Work, Public Health, Nursing, Pharmacy, Hearing & Speech Sciences, Physical Therapy
Previous Student Project Community Partner Deliverables:
- Connecting low-income housing residents with basic health care resources.
- Modeling a system to better connect individuals with disabilities to needed care.
- Educating disadvantaged youth about career opportunities in S.T.E.M. fields.
- Developing resources to help adults with systemic diseases make healthier food decisions.
IPE Faculty Collaborative:
IPE Faculty partner with like-minded peers to provide their students an opportunity to tackle real-world problems in a real-world setting.
- Shared curriculum and co-teaching with administrative programmatic support
- Alignment with IPEC competencies
- Student exposure to interprofessional practice
- Community-engaged service learning
- Opportunities for scholarship contributions
