Interprofessional education (IPE) is an important step in advancing health professional education for many years and has been endorsed by the Institute of Medicine as a mechanism to improve the overall quality of health care. IPE has also become an area of focus for the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP), with several groups, including these authors from the AACP Interprofessional Education Task Force, working on developing resources to promote and support IPE planning and development. This review provides background on the definition of IPE, evidence to support IPE, the need for IPE, student competencies and objectives for IPE, barriers to implementation of IPE, and elements critical for successfully implementing IPE.

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The behavior of the piezoelectric acoustic wave sensor of the thickness-shear-mode type in various liquids has been characterized by the network analysis method. Models for this system based only on bulk liquid parameters fail to explain the behavior of the device with respect to series resonant frequency. Use of sensors with controlled surface free energy of the metal electrodes has been employed to demonstrate the importance of the liquid-solid interface in determining the response of the device. The contribution of the effects of surface roughness on the sensor response is discussed. Additionally, a previously-published four-layer model is successful in predicting the trends in values for the series resonant frequency for a set of mixed water-methanol solutions.

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