Poster Collection

Call for Posters

From Ideas to Impact: Innovation in Interprofessional Education & Practice

The IPEC Poster Fair is a free, online opportunity to share interprofessional education for collaborative practice (IPECP) projects and practices led by health professions schools, programs, and their partners. IPEC welcomes poster submissions from all disciplines and at any stage of development—from exploration and design to full implementation.

The next call for posters opens July 1, 2025.

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IPEC Poster Fair Collection

Building on the success of its Institute poster sessions, IPEC launched an annual, peer-reviewed Virtual Poster Fair in 2021, featuring a nationwide call for abstracts. Recognition of excellence was expanded to highlight standout projects across thematic groupings. Since its inception, the Fair has showcased almost 200 posters across 11+ themes, with 36 award winners. Poster themes have included curriculum design, peer teaching and learning, simulation-based IPE, virtual interprofessional learning, clinical education and collaborative practice, capacity building, interprofessional leadership, statewide and systems-level IPECP, complex care, patient safety, and health equity, diversity, and inclusion.

The IPEC Poster Fair offers a platform to showcase interprofessional education for collaborative practice (IPECP) projects led by health professions schools, programs, and their partners. IPEC welcomes submissions from all disciplines, highlighting interprofessional efforts at any stage of development or implementation.

To review and explore the educational content and valuable insights shared by the presenters, download the handouts below.

• 2024 Poster Fair Showcase
• 2024 IPEC Poster Fair Listing which includes 56 poster titles, presenters, co-presenters, co-authors, and brief poster descriptions
• 2024 IPEC Poster Fair Presentations which includes 53 available poster presentations
• 2023 Poster Fair Showcase
• 2023 IPEC Poster Fair Listing which includes 50 poster titles, presenters, co-authors, and brief poster descriptions
• 2023 IPEC Poster Fair Presentations which includes 48 available poster presentations
• 2022 Poster Fair Showcase
• 2022 IPEC Poster Fair Listing which includes 40 poster titles, presenters, co-authors, and brief poster descriptions
• 2022 IPEC Poster Fair Poster Presentations which includes 39 available poster presentations
• 2021 Poster Fair Showcase
• 2021 IPEC Poster Fair Listing which includes poster titles, presenters, co-authors, and brief poster descriptions
• 2021 IPEC Poster Presentations which includes all 23 poster presentations

IPEC Institute Posters

Committed to advancing substantive interprofessional learning experiences that prepare health professionals for enhanced team-based care of patients and improved population health outcomes, IPEC hosts two team-based Faculty Development Institutes a year (Spring and Fall) for teams to identify an institutionally based project and develop an implementation plan to embed interprofessional education within their health professions schools. This collection includes posters that describe the development and implementation of these projects.

To view the poster catalog, click on each IPEC Institute.

• 2015 Spring Institute: Building Interprofessional Education for Population Health - April 29-May 1, 2015 - Hyatt Dulles - Herndon, VA
• 2015 Fall Institute: Building a Framework for Collaboration - October 7-9, 2015 - Hyatt Dulles - Herndon, VA
• 2016 Spring Institute: Quality Improvement & Patient Safety - May 4-6, 2016 - Hyatt Regency Dulles - Herndon, VA
• 2016 Fall Institute: Building a Framework for Collaboration - October 5-7, 2016 - Hyatt Regency Dulles - Herndon, VA
• 2017 Spring Institute: Building a Framework for Collaboration - May 3-5, 2017 - AAMC Learning Center - Washington, DC
• 2017 Fall Institute: Advancing & Sustaining Your Program for Collaborative Practice - October 18-20, 2017 - Hilton - Long Beach, CA
  
• 2018 Spring Institute: Building a Framework for Collaboration - April 30-May 2, 2018 - AAMC Learning Center - Washington, DC
  
• 2018 Fall Institute: Advancing & Sustaining Your Program for Collaborative Practice - October 3-5, 2018 - Sheraton Crescent Hotel - Phoenix, AZ
  
• 2019 Spring Institute: Building a Framework for Collaboration - May 22-24, 2019 - AAMC Learning Center - Washington, DC
• 2019 Fall Institute: Strengthening Partnerships for IPE and Collaborative Practice - October 2-4, 2019 - Embassy Suites by Hilton Portland Downtown, Portland, OR

Best Poster Winners

IPEC's first non-competitive Poster Gallery Walk debuted at the Spring 2014 Faculty Development Institute in Herndon, VA. In Spring 2017, IPEC began a contest for Best Poster.

See the list of Best Poster Winners below.

Spring 2017 in Washington, D.C.

Ann S. Botash, Carol A. Recker-Hughes, Bambi A. Carkey, Darren J. Carboni, Lynn M. Cleary
Office of Interprofessional Education, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY
“Embedding Interprofessional Education into a Learning Experience: Creating Twelve Tips”

Fall 2017 in Long Beach, CA

Briyana L. M. Morrell, Rebecca A. Cartledge, Jennifer N. Carmack, Kathleen E. Hetzler, Stephanie R. Kemery, Shannon M. Moore, Alison M. Nichols, Jane Toon, Craig A. Voll Jr., Elizabeth S. Moore
University of Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN
“Emergency on Campus: Attitudes of Interprofessional Healthcare Students in a Simulated Patient Care Experience”

Spring 2018 in Washington, D.C.

Lynn E. Copes and Maurice Fremont-Smith
Quinnipiac University, Hamden, CT
“One Donor Connects Them All: An Interprofessional Exploration of Anatomy, Pathology, and One Human Story”

Fall 2018 in Phoenix, AZ

Denise Bender, Margaret Robinson, Christi Barbee, Melody Yozzo, and Raina Leckie
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK
“Blending Curricular Design, Faculty Development, And Research To Launch A Campus-wide Interprofessional Initiative”

Spring 2019 in Washington, D.C.

Jennifer Sharp and Kathy Lee Bishop
Emory University, Atlanta, GA
“Enhancing Interprofessional Communication: An Interprofessional Academic Simulation Experience”

Jodi Allen and Nicole Petsas Blodgett
Purdue University Northwest, Hammond, IN
“Developing Sustainable IPE Partnerships to Improve Health of Vulnerable Populations"

Fall 2019 in Portland, OR

Lynn Short, Jacqueline Ferdowsali, and Leslie Elliott
University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, NV
“A Second Life for Interprofessional Education: Using Simulations to Engage Online Learners”