Building collaborative clinic pathways can prepare pediatric teams to deliver high-quality integrated care, and evidence shows that professionals educated in collaborative care approaches can improve access, quality, and care experience for children with BH needs. However, professional education still occurs in siloes. Thus, interprofessional education typically happens at the practice/clinic level and is highly context-dependent. 

Collaborative pathways must align with how primary care is delivered, often requiring role and task definition and re-definition. These and other factors, such as provider attitudes, lack of understanding of each other's roles, and lack of time and resources, are identified barriers to building successful interprofessional collaboration. To prepare integrated teams for collaborative practice, practice-based interprofessional education should target general and context-specific operational and attitudinal challenges.  

This presentation will provide an overview of the interprofessional collaboration literature and illustrate the role of interprofessional education in successfully implementing collaborative clinic pathways across two pediatric settings.