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IPEC Institutional Assessment Instrument

With support from the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation, the IPEC Institutional Assessment Instrument was developed in partnership with the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. Created by a panel of nationally recognized experts and scholars in interprofessional education (IPE), the tool is intended to address the absence of evidence-based instruments available to assess institutional capacity for high-quality programmatic IPE.The IPEC Institutional Assessment Instrument consists of 20 items distributed across three factors: Institutional Infrastructure, Institutional Commitment, and IPEC Competency Framework.

Tool

Download the IPEC Institutional Assessment Instrument (IAI) PDF.

 

Evidence

To read the free access article on the development and validation of the IPEC Institutional Assessment Instrument, click here.

Citation

Zorek, J. A., Ragucci, K. R., Eickhoff, J., Najjar, G., Ballard, J. F., Blue, A. V., Bronstein, L. R., Dow, A., Gunaldo, T. P., Hageman, H., Karpa, K. D., Michalec, B., Nickol, D., Odiaga, J., Ohtake, P. J., Pfeifle, A., Southerland, J. H., Vlasses, F. R., Young, V., & Zomorodi, M. (2022). Development and validation of the IPEC Institutional Assessment Instrument. Journal of Interprofessional Education and Practice, 29, 100553. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xjep.2022.100553

Purpose

The purpose of the IPEC Institutional Assessment Instrument (IAI) is to identify institutional characteristics associated with successful implementation of high-quality programmatic interprofessional education (IPE).

Application

Leaders of academic institutions are encouraged to utilize the 20-item IPEC Institutional Assessment Instrument (pages 3-4) alongside the 105 expert-generated consensus statements (pages 5-13) it is based upon to assess their institutional capacity for high-quality programmatic IPE and to plan for quality improvement.

Directions

Using the rating scale provided under each category, please express your level of agreement with each of the items based on your overall impressions and observations of institutional characteristics. Definitions are provided to ensure uniform understanding of items.

Background

Variability in the widespread utilization and implementation of IPEC's 2016 competency framework has highlighted the importance of institutional characteristics that serve as barriers and/or facilitators to progress, as well as the absence of evidence-based assessment instruments designed to measure related constructs.

Method

A 16-member expert panel used a modified Delphi technique to generate consensus statements regarding institutional characteristics associated with high-quality programmatic IPE, which were converted into a pool of items for potential inclusion in the instrument. A convenience sample of individuals who serve as the designated IPE leader at their academic institutions voluntarily submitted responses to these items on behalf of their institutions, and exploratory factor analysis (EFA) was utilized to identify a preliminary model structure for the instrument.

Results

105 consensus statements across eight categories – culture, leadership, financing, infrastructure, partnerships, faculty affairs, curricular affairs, and IPEC competency framework – were developed by the expert panel, then transformed into 48 potential instrument items. 158 designated IPE leaders submitted responses as institutional representatives, and EFA yielded a 20-item model structure comprised of three factors: Institutional Infrastructure, Institutional Commitment, and IPEC Competency Framework.

Questions

Direct questions about the IPEC Institutional Assessment Instrument to:

  • Kelly R. Ragucci, PharmD, FCCP, BCPS, Senior Vice President and Chief Academic Officer, American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy ([email protected])
  • Joseph A. Zorek, PharmD, BCGP, FNAP, Executive Director, Linking Interprofessional Networks for Collaboration (LINC), Office of the Vice President for Academic, Faculty and Student Affairs & Professor, School of Nursing, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio ([email protected])