Interprofessional Education (IPE) Leaders Network

The Interprofessional Education (IPE) Leaders Network works collaboratively to advance interprofessional education, and transform care through collaboration, as a partnership between the University of Toronto, Centre for Advancing Collaborative Healthcare & Education (CACHE) and Interprofessional Education Leads/Representatives from the Toronto Academic Health Science Network (TAHSN) member/affiliate sites and other interested partners across the continuum of care.

Through the exchange of best practices and the identification of collective priorities, the Network champions an innovative, impactful, connected, and sustainable approach to IPE.

Terms of Reference for this network

Interprofessional Education (IPE) Leaders Network Goals 2026

Established following IPE Leaders Network Retreat 2025-11-20 and the IPE Leaders Network Meeting 2026-01-22. Finalized at IPE Leaders Network Meeting 2026-03-19.

1. Continue to partner with CACHE to co-chair and have membership in the IPE Workplace Learning Working Group, with the aim of enhancing the integration of workplace-based IPE within the curriculum and across the programs represented by the IFCC and providing clarity during the curriculum change starting in the 2026-2027 academic year.
2. Collaborate as a network to increase IPE elective learning activity seats for this academic year and establish a target number of IPEL-facilitated seats for the 2026/27 academic year. Strategies may include:
   1. Collaborate across hospital systems to offer elective learning activities
   2. Expand facilitator availability
   3. Support facilitator training
   4. Discuss strategies for championing flexible activities as elective learning activities (e.g. Unity Health example of integrating shadowing during transition to clerkship)
   5. Co-create new elective learning activities (e.g. fundamentals of care/scope of practice)
3. Work collaboratively with CACHE and others to support the development of new IPE facilitator training that is modeled on the Longitudinal Interprofessional Facilitators Training (LIFT) model. This work reflects the goal of increasing the number of formally trained IPE facilitators and enabling more opportunities for learners to participate in workplace-based elective learning activities.