Strengthening Interprofessional Education Plan Evaluation Through Evidence-Based Practices.

Area of Science:

• Pharmacy Education
• Interprofessional Education (IPE)
• Program Evaluation

Background:

• Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education Standards 2025 require robust interprofessional education (IPE) plan evaluations.
• Evaluations must ensure graduates are team-ready and support continuous quality improvement.
• This review focuses on best practices for developing effective IPE plan evaluations within pharmacy programs.

Purpose of the Study:

• To outline best practices for building robust interprofessional education (IPE) plan evaluations.
• To highlight published examples from pharmacy schools implementing IPE plan evaluations.
• To address the need for practical application examples in IPE evaluation.

Main Methods:

• Narrative literature review.
• Identification of consensus guidance documents on IPE assessment and evaluation.
• Summarization of published examples from pharmacy programs.

Main Results:

• Literature provides guidance on effective IPE assessment and evaluation, including frameworks and resources.
• Best practices involve intentional design, diverse data integration, and meta-evaluation principles.
• Real-world examples of program-level IPE plan evaluation implementation are limited but summarized.

Conclusions:

• Best practices for interprofessional education (IPE) plan evaluation are documented.
• There is a need for more practical examples of applying these strategies in PharmD programs.
• PharmD programs should share detailed models for sustainable, evidence-based IPE evaluation practices.