Office of Interprofessional Programs Mission & Vision
Our Mission
The mission of the Rutgers Health Office of Interprofessional Programs is to facilitate the development, implementation and evaluation of interprofessional educational, clinical and research programs within and between the schools, clinical units and institutes that make up Rutgers Health.
Our Vision
Rutgers Health will lead the nation in training health professions students to work as effective members of interprofessional teams.
The clinical practices within Rutgers Health will demonstrably improve health outcomes in the patients and communities we serve by providing patient care that utilizes highly functioning interprofessional teams.
Rutgers Schools and Programs Involved in IPE
The Rutgers Health Office of Interprofessional Programs was created on July 1, 2013, when most of the schools of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey were merged into Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. The Schools and Programs that are involved in interprofessional education at Rutgers are:
- Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy
- Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology
- New Jersey Medical School
- Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
- Rutgers School of Dental Medicine
- School of Health Professions
- Clinical Nutrition Program
- Combined Master of Public Health Degree in Nutrition and Dietetic Internship Certificate Program
- Diagnostic Medical Sonography Program
- Rehabilitation Counseling Program
- Medical Laboratory Science Program
- Occupational Therapy Assistant Program
- Occupational Therapy Doctorate Program
- Physical Therapy Program
- Physician Assistant Program
- Speech-Language Pathology Program
- School of Nursing
- School of Public Health
- School of Social Work
The range of health professions students trained at Rutgers Health allows for the development of innovative interprofessional learning opportunities that provide students from a wide range of disciplines to learn about, from and with each other. Our students are trained to work as members of highly functional collaborative teams in a variety of settings including small and large case-based sessions, student-run clinics, community based clinics and in simulated case based learning.