I'm back!!! Well there is lots of buzz occurring related to the future of healthcare reform, and what the presidential elections will "mean" for america and Obamacare. So, instead of focusing on things we can't really control or decide, I wanted to remind the healthcare leaders reading this blog about the importance of working together-true partnering in the spirit of safe, quality patient care. The term interprofessional collaboration, IPC, is all about working together for safer patient care. Academic institutions are including this philosophy into their curriculum at a fairly rapid pace, but clinicians seem to struggle with implementation. A lot of the work related to IPC has been captured in the IOM reports on patient safety, but none have clearly outline evidence based practices of how exactly to make it happen, and more importantly how to sustain it. There is work cited on blogs, and via internet about the great work being done with IPC at the University