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From The President
4.25.12
The Path Ahead For IPE
New York, NY
Our recent conference on interprofessional education (IPE) further crystallized for me the sense that IPE is at a tipping point and fueled my resolve to bring IPE into the mainstream of health professions education. As I reflect on what was shared and discussed at the conference, I am excited anew by the very real possibility we have to grow this movement and implement IPE on a large scale. As we move forward, there are three underlying principles that the conference helped illuminate and which I believe must guide our future efforts.
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4.24.12
Annual Report: Achievements of 2011 Reveal Signs of Progress
New York, NY
The past year was a transformative one for the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation in which many of the ideas and plans we launched three years ago have begun to come to fruition. We are happy therefore to release our 2011 Annual Report, which aptly portrays real evidence of our impact.
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1.24.12
What’s New With IPE? IPE Itself.
New York, NY
In the fall I had the opportunity to visit two of our grantees and see firsthand the work they are doing to advance interprofessional education (IPE). Their efforts reflect the tremendous progress Macy grantees are making in translating IPE from theory into practice. Interprofessional education has been discussed for more than 40 years but now, in these schools, it is becoming real.
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11.28.11
Reflecting on the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Medical Colleges
New York, NY
A key measure for any foundation is whether the work it supports is having impact or influencing change in its area of focus. I recently returned from Denver, CO, where I attended the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) annual meeting, something I do every year. This year I was particularly struck by how much of the work we support is permeating discussions about academic medicine reform.
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