Strengthening Interprofessional Education Plan Evaluation Through Evidence-Based Practices

The Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education Standards 2025 require PharmD programs to develop and implement an interprofessional education (IPE) plan evaluation. Evaluation strategies must ensure that graduates are team-ready and support continuous quality improvement efforts. This narrative review outlines best practices for building robust IPE plan evaluations, drawing from the literature, and highlights published examples from pharmacy schools that model these approaches at the program level.

The literature offers a range of consensus guidance documents on effective IPE assessment and evaluation, including guidelines, primers, and national repositories of measurement tools and other resources. Best practices include using learning frameworks for intentional design, integrating diverse data sources across longitudinal IPE plan evaluations, and applying meta-evaluation principles to refine evaluation strategies. Despite the presence of guidance documents found in the literature, real-world examples of how individual programs have implemented these best practices in the development and refinement of IPE plan evaluations remain relatively limited. Existing examples are summarized.

Although best practices for IPE plan evaluation are well-documented, there is a clear need for more practical examples that show how these strategies are applied within individual programs. PharmD programs are encouraged to share detailed models and iterative approaches to IPE plan evaluation to support the broader IPE community in developing sustainable, evidence-based, robust evaluation practices.