Interprofessional Practice, Minor

The purpose of Saint Louis University's interprofessional education minor program is to prepare you with the knowledge, attitudes and skills of interprofessional practice, which lead to:

• Collaborative person-centered care
• Optimal individual health outcomes for all persons
• Improvements in community-level (population) health
• Effective and efficient delivery of health and social care services
• Advocacy for policy and system improvement for health

Curriculum Overview

This 16-credit minor is an elective option for undergraduate students interested in a career in health-related professions.

The IPE curriculum is designed to move students from understanding the need for and developing foundational skills in interprofessional practice to a broad understanding of the challenges in the health care system to provide equable access to high-quality health care, and coordinated, patient-centered care (IPE 2100 Interprofessional Collaboration and Healthcare in Global Context (3 cr)).

This foundation is then applied in the context of effective team-based care for individual patients (IPE 4200 Applied Decision-Making in Interprofessional Practice (3 cr)) and improving community and population health outcomes (IPE 4900 Interprofessional Community Practicum (3 cr)). In addition to these courses, three IPE-attributed courses (Ethics, Research and Clinical Immersion) are required. These courses provide students with added context and experience around decision-making, knowledge translation and collaborative practice.

Continuation Standards

Students must maintain a GPA of 2.00 in interprofessional coursework.

For more information about our interprofessional education program, including the concentration in interprofessional practice and the microcredential in interprofessional collaboration, please email ipe@slu.edu.