Mission of the IPEC
Interprofessional Education Collaboration (IPEC) at OCOM focuses on enhancing collaboration between OCOM’s osteopathic medical students (OMS) and learners across various healthcare professions. It aims to build teamwork, improve patient care, and foster a more integrated healthcare environment.

Purpose of IPEC
The Interprofessional Education Collaboration (IPEC) at OCOM prepares students to excel in a collaborative healthcare environment by fostering teamwork, communication, and mutual respect among healthcare professionals. 

Goals of IPEC 
The IPEC Core Competencies for Interprofessional Collaborative Practice: Version 3 reflects the vision that interprofessional collaborative practice is key to safe, high-quality, accessible, equitable, person/client-centered care and enhanced population health outcomes desired by all. This competency set is aimed at preparing learners to engage in lifelong learning and collaboration to improve both person/client care and population health outcomes.

• Value and Ethics - Work with team members to maintain a climate of shared values, ethical conduct, and mutual respect.

• Roles and Responsibilities - use the knowledge of one’s own role and team members’ expertise to address individual and population health outcomes.

• Communication - Communicate in a responsive, responsible, respectful, and compassionate manner with team members.

• Teams and Teamwork - Apply values and principles of the sciences of teamwork to adapt one’s own role in a variety of team settings.