Interprofessional Education 
IPE at PCOM's Philadelphia Campus

We at PCOM seek to train healthcare professionals who can provide person-centered, interprofessional, collaborative care across the life span; driven by osteopathic principles to optimize the wellness of the populations we serve.

Vision

PCOM will be a national leader in training healthcare professionals who can provide person-centered, interprofessional, collaborative care across the life span; we are driven by osteopathic principles to focus on patient safety, healthcare quality improvement, and optimizing the wellness of the populations we serve.

Mission

In pursuit of this vision, our graduates will become competent in the following domains through comprehensive and integrated curriculum, experiential learning, and patient care:

1. Values and ethics;
2. Roles and responsibilities;
3. Interprofessional communication;
4. Interprofessional, collaborative teamwork; and
5. Collaborative decision-making clinical reasoning and critical thought informed by interprofessional education.

Goal

To intentionally develop collaborative healthcare practitioners by having them learn from, with, and about each others’ professions in relation to optimize patient-care that is evidence-based and holistic.

Objectives

• Interact with mutual respect and appreciation for others’ roles and responsibilities to enhance the following practice areas: interprofessional and patient-provider communication about patient care, research and advocacy.
• To establish shared values and ethical decision making and practice among healthcare professional students toward holistic patient-centered care, best patient outcomes, and multidisciplinary problem solving across the biopsychosocial cultural continuum of care.
• To foster relationship-building values and the identity of a teamwork approach to patient care, community service and teaching, and clinical research for the betterment of the populations we serve.
• For students to have ongoing self-reflection on thoughts, feelings and behaviors that enhance or inhibit interprofessional education and practice, and commit to lifelong learning toward ongoing awareness and openness to providing interprofessional education and care for the betterment of the community they serve.