Joint Accreditation for Interprofessional Continuing Education (12/14/22)

Joint Accreditation for Interprofessional Continuing Education has published the Joint Accreditation Report: Driving Improvement through Accredited Continuing Education for Healthcare Teams-2021. The new report includes data from 132 jointly accredited continuing education providers. This number represents a nearly 17% increase in jointly accredited providers from 2020. In addition, there was a 32% increase in activities and almost 9% growth in learner interactions from the previous year. Performance/quality improvement activities increased 178% to 89 from 2020 to 2021, while live courses increased 59%. "Other" or "blended learning" activities grew by more than 400% to 405 activities, while enduring materials and live courses were the most frequent activity types. Enduring materials also saw the most interactions, with more than 20 million interactions with healthcare professionals. Meanwhile, total interprofessional continuing education (IPCE) credits surpassed 150,000 and the number of organizations providing IPCE credit rose from 85 to 96. "Jointly accredited providers can use this report to benchmark themselves against their colleagues and to demonstrate the value of their work to leadership and stakeholders," reports the Joint Accreditation for Interprofessional Continuing Education.

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