Our core competencies:
- Respect the unique cultures, values, roles/responsibilities, and expertise of other health professions
- Manage ethical dilemmas specific to interprofessional patient/population centered care situations
- Listen actively and encourage ideas and opinions of other team members
- Communicate consistently the importance of teamwork in patient-centered and community-focused care
- Engage diverse healthcare professional who complement one’s own professional expertise, as well as associated resources, to develop strategies to meet specific patient care needs
- Forge interdependent relationships with other professions to improve care and advance learning
- Engage other health professionals –appropriate to the specific care situation – in shared patient-centered problem-solving
- Integrate the knowledge and experience of other professionals – appropriate to the specific care situation – to inform care decisions, while respecting patient and community values and priorities/preferences for care