Committees and Work Groups

We aim to provide world-class interprofessional practice and education that transforms health and health outcomes for all. Our Committees and Work Groups are essential toward achieving this goal, enabling our strategic direction, facilitating the development of key initiatives and programs, reviewing evaluation and assessment data, and making subsequent recommendations for improvement.

The collective leadership of these teams ensures that we’re inclusive of our campus and community stakeholders and that we deliver on our commitment to advance interprofessional practice and education at Ohio State.

The Ohio State University BuckIPE Academic Strategy Council includes curricular deans and other campus leaders responsible for and positioned to shepherd successful implementation of interprofessional education across The Ohio State University. The Council advances interprofessional education across campus by evaluating academic program data, driving strategic curriculum changes, and hosting collaborative forums to expand campus-wide interprofessional education initiatives. Through regular touchpoints with BuckIPE Champions, the group directly supports ground-level implementation and ongoing program growth throughout the year. They meet biannually and at other intervals as needed.

The BuckIPE Champions are appointed by college Deans to represent and advance interprofessional practice and education with their respective faculty, staff, and students at the college or school level. 

Charge 

The Ohio State University IPE Champions oversee, communicate, implement, and integrate interprofessional practice and education within their respective colleges or schools and across Ohio State University by working in four domains: BuckIPE Exemplar, BuckIPE Leader, BuckIPE Advocate, and BuckIPE Change Agent. 

Specifically, Champions: 

• Provide collaborative leadership. 
• Model inclusive excellence. 
• Bring stakeholder perspectives into discussion planning and work together to integrate multiple perspectives into decisions and recommendations to support interprofessional programming, faculty engagement, and collaborative practice. 
• Collaborate with IPE Ambassadors to harness our greater IPE community's energy, passion, and support. 
• Identify the fundamental forces enabling the advancement of IPE and lead the implementation of strategies to facilitate those changes. 
• Solicit, advocate for, and represent the university, college, and program perspective(s) to advance interprofessional collaborative practice and interprofessional education and to promote relationship-centeredness.  
• Collaborate with college/unit leadership and faculty to ensure integration and implementation of interprofessional education.