Joseph
Zorek,
PharmD, BCGP, FNAP
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Texas,
United States
Joseph A. Zorek, PharmD, BCGP, FNAP, is Executive Director of UT Health San Antonio’s award-winning Quality Enhancement Plan—Linking Interprofessional Networks for Collaboration (LINC)—and Professor in the School of Nursing, where he teaches advanced pharmacotherapeutics to graduate students. Joe co-authored the 2019 Health Professions Accreditors Collaborative national consensus guidance on developing quality interprofessional education (IPE) and served as lead author and editor of the 2023 update to the Interprofessional Education Collaborative’s (IPEC) core competencies for interprofessional collaborative practice report. Joe currently serves as co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Interprofessional Education and Practice.
Presenting at CAB 2025:
We will explore three potential contributions to interprofessional education: management reasoning, collective competence, and critically reflective practice. These concepts can help prepare future graduates for the complexity of working in increasingly pressured contexts. Through facilitated discussion, participants will consider how these ideas can be incorporated into their educational practices.
This session explores the updated IPEC Core Competencies, focusing on their application in diverse learning environments. Through brief theory-based learning, interactive roundtable discussions, and a group debrief, participants will share strategies for implementation, assess impact, and identify solutions to barriers, ensuring practical, real-world integration of collaborative healthcare practices.