UCF’s Academic Health Sciences Center is recognized by the Association of Schools Advancing Health Professions, which focuses on critical issues affecting health professions.
Providing comprehensive healthcare services to uninsured farmworkers and families in the community, offering inclusive playdates to children with complex communication and motor needs, and delivering courses to build resilience in healthcare providers are just a few of the exceptional interprofessional education (IPE) and interprofessional collaborative practice (IPCP) initiatives that have led to a prestigious national recognition for UCF’s Academic Health Sciences Center (AHSC).
“Through interprofessional collaborative practice, UCF is unleashing potential of students and faculty to improve patient care and solve our world’s greatest healthcare challenges.”
Dean Mary Lou Sole
The AHSC was honored with the Award for Institutional Excellence and Innovation in Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Health Care by the Association of Schools Advancing Health Professions (ASAHP), a national professional organization of universities and employers that focuses on critical issues affecting health professions. The award recognizes an institution that has excelled in IPE and IPCP — principles based on the idea that collaboration will increase the efficiency and effectiveness of delivery systems to promote team-based, family- and patient-centered healthcare.
“The future of healthcare is collaborative, and UCF is ensuring a healthier future by fostering interprofessional learning opportunities that prepare future healthcare professionals across all disciplines for practice,” says Mary Lou Sole, dean of UCF’s College of Nursing.
The UCF College of Nursing faculty leading programs honored by this award are Heather Peralta and Desiree Díaz.
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