The EHPIC Program

University of Toronto Centre for Interprofessional Education Educating Health Professionals in Interprofessional Care (EHPIC) Program

Excellence in Interprofessional CPD Award

Continuing Professional Development Awards

EHPIC-Winners
2019 EHPIC Graduates and Faculty - Co-Directors Ivy Oandasan and Belinda Vilhena, (front row, centre) and Susan J. Wagner, Lynne Sinclair and Kathryn Parker. Faculty absent from photo: Mandy Lowe, Azadeh Moaveni, Denyse Richardson, Donna Romano, Mohammad Salhia, and Maria Tassone.

About the Program & Centre

The Centre for Interprofessional Education’s Educating Health Professionals for Interprofessional Care (ehpic™) program is an internationally renowned certificate program targeted at health professionals, educators, and leaders, and is focused on advancing the future of healthcare through interprofessional learning. Over the last 15 years, ehpic has developed over 2000 learners with a competency-based curriculum that uses highly effective needs assessment practices, emergent curriculum, learner engagement processes and robust evaluation strategies to enhance interprofessional teamwork within education and practice. Through iterative and collaborative design with faculty, education and practice partners, ehpic has developed a wide range of facilitation methodologies, approaches, resources and faculty expertise to address identified and emergent needs of learners across health education and healthcare systems. Ehpic truly models excellence in CPD as it is designed to enhance workplace-based learning and collaborative practice, addresses collaborative leadership, and challenges learners to lead transformative change, with the ultimate goal of improving healthcare delivery and patient/client experience.

About the Award

Acknowledging the importance of exceptional health care teams in the provision of quality health care, this award was developed to recognize excellence in in continuing professional development activities designed to enhance interprofessional team practice and improve healthcare delivery.