Instructors wanting to engage students in the classroom seek methods to augment the delivery of factual information and help students move from being passive recipients to active participants in their own learning. One such method that has gained interest is team-based learning. This method encourages students to be prepared before class and has students work in teams while in the classroom. Key benefits to this pedagogy are student engagement, improved communication skills, and enhanced critical-thinking abilities. In most cases, student satisfaction and academic performance are also noted. This paper reviews the fundamentals of team-based learning in pharmacy education and its implementation in the classroom. Literature reports from medical, nursing, and pharmacy programs are also discussed.

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Today's global society is increasingly diverse and complex requiring resiliency to successfully navigate challenges in the workplace. Health care educators are charged with the task of developing curriculum that is highly engaging while also preparing students to address the challenges of providing safe and effective care to increasingly ill patients within complex integrated healthcare systems. Central to their success as learners and future practitioners will be the development of grit: The ability to be diligent, hardworking, and able to remain positive despite setbacks. Interprofessional education develops grit by tapping into intrinsic motivation and provides a new modality for the development of 21 st century skills and competencies of teamwork, collaboration, communication, and ethical reasoning. The article will provide a discussion of IPE as a venue for promoting grit as well as developing intrinsic motivation in today's 21 st century healthcare students. Interprofessional Education: Building Student Resilience and Grit through Teamwork Keywords:Interprofessional education, Grit, Teamwork Expert OpinionOpen Access IntroductionToday's healthcare environment is complex, fast-paced, and demanding requiring students and staff to have grit to successfully collaborate in an interprofessional team. Health professional students must learn how to be resilient. They learn core knowledge, skills, attitudes and values and are asked to quickly apply learning to a clinical or professional setting. Students' ability to move from receiving direct instruction to clinical practice is facilitated through multiple learning experiences including supervised interprofessional training in simulation, experiential opportunities, and co-curricular settings that develop practitioner resilience, and grit, which predicts and is necessary for long term success. This paper describes interprofessional education (IPE) as a means of promoting grit and resiliency to prepare healthcare students for long term professional success. Grit Predicts SuccessA major factor in predicting success in a student's education and professional development is the concept of grit. Grit is the ability to remain resilient in pursuing goals despite setbacks or encountered hardships [1,2]. Interprofessional education (IPE) engages students in intrinsically motivating experiences that can promote grit through significant and challenging learning that develops required proficiency in teamwork, ethical decision making, understanding of roles, and interdisciplinary communication [3,4,5]. These learned skills have been recognized as key 21st century attributes for success nationally and internationally by educators and employers and are now a central focus of the Interprofessional Education Collaborative Report [3]. While the IPEC Report is supported by nearly all of the health profession educator associations and accreditors in the United States of America [6], the majority of educational programs continue to provide healthcare training and education in s...

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According to multiple national and international policies, interprofessional education and practice is a necessary component to break the silos in health care services, as well as improve patient safety and health outcomes. As a result, interprofessional education is quickly becoming the accreditation standard for multiple healthcare disciplines including medicine, nursing, pharmacy, physical therapy and speechlanguage pathology. In addition to developing curriculum that is highly engaging while also preparing students to address the challenges of providing safe and effective care to increasingly ill patients, health care educators must also design, refine, and embed interprofessional education activities into an often impacted program. This article will provide a brief background of interprofessional education, current accreditation expectations across healthcare disciplines and discuss the development of the California-Interprofessional Education Research Academy Model