2025–2030 Interprofessional Practice and Education Strategic Roadmap
Expanding the impact of collaborative teamwork at Ohio State
The Ohio State University Office of Interprofessional Practice and Education 2025-2030 Strategic Roadmap serves as a visionary blueprint for the future of collaborative health care. The Strategic Roadmap is aligned with our institutional goals, including both The Ohio State University's Education for Citizenship 2035 and The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center's Impact 2035 strategic plans, to address the evolving needs of the global health community.
Together, these pillars provide a structured path toward a more unified, effective and patient-centered future.
Our ambition
Prepare a current, emerging, and future workforce with the knowledge and skills for transformative, innovative, and exemplary interprofessional collaboration and teamwork that leads to better health, healthcare, and well-being for everyone.
Inspire: Drive a culture of collaboration across education, clinical, and community practice settings.
- Translate interprofessional practice and education as relevant and strategically important to advancing the goals and priorities of The Ohio State University.
- Incentivize, recognize, and reward interprofessional collaboration across The Ohio State University.
- Build and communicate the collective impact of Ohio State’s interprofessional collaboration community and knowledge network to advance health, health care, and well-being.
- Advance institutional infrastructure and secure resources to sustain interprofessional practice and education across the university.
Equip: Prepare the current, emerging, and future workforce for interprofessional collaboration that improves health and health care.
- Deliver comprehensive, integrated, high-quality, evidence-based education that equips the future workforce for effective interprofessional collaboration and teamwork.
- Distinguish Ohio State as the leader in interprofessional practice and education, ensuring a current workforce that is adaptable and well-equipped for evolving challenges.
- Incentivize, prepare, and support educators who participate in high-quality interprofessional education and training to prepares learners for interprofessional collaboration and teamwork.
- Implement competency-based individual assessment of interprofessional collaboration and teamwork.
Transform: Innovate, implement, and accelerate integrated interprofessional collaborative practice.
- Advance evidence-based interprofessional practice and education in the clinical learning environment.
- Accelerate innovative, transformative, best-in-class interprofessional collaboration across clinical and community practice settings.
- Translate evidence that supports best practices and exemplary teaming into that leads to better health, health care, and well-being for everyone.
- Drive excellence quality, safety, experience, and access in health care through interprofessional collaboration.
Discover: Accelerate research and discovery in interprofessional practice and education.
- Generate research and discovery that adds to the evidence base for interprofessional practice and education.
- Support evaluation, research, and evidence-based practice that ignites interprofessional practice and education.
- Disseminate Ohio State scholarship that advances interprofessional education, collaboration, and teamwork to local, state, national, and international audiences.
- Amplify Ohio State scholarly contributions to interprofessional practice and education.