You are invited to participate in a new initiative from the National Collaborative for Improving the Clinical Learning Environment (NCICLE) to promote interprofessional learning in experiential education and the creation of high-performing teams. NCICLE is asking each of its 41 health care professional member organizations to review the pathways and properties in the “Teaming” area of the NCICLE Pathways to Excellence document and to submit tools and resources from their practice sites to be shared among the organizations. Submissions must be linked to one of the Teaming pathways or properties found on pages 15–16 of the document. Resources may be examples of team-building exercises, interprofessional orientation or training for learners and trainees, or patient safety and quality improvement activities involving multiple disciplines within the clinical learning environment (CLE). Projects aimed at increasing patient and caregiver engagement as part of the health care team are particularly important to submit. The resources need not have been published in the medical literature. Please use the Resource Submission Tool to submit one or more resources by August 31, 2023.

NCICLE is seeking to expand the use of CLEs by providing tools and resources that focus on how users can operationalize the pathways and properties within the NCICLE Pathways to Excellence. “Teaming” was selected as the focus for 2023. The concept of teaming recognizes the dynamic and fluid nature of individuals coming together to form a health care team, which necessitates ongoing collaborating, learning, and adapting among team members. The NCICLE Teaming Resources Challenge is an effort to gather tools, resources, and ideas to promote teaming in a concentrated time interval and share them with the members of the collaboration. At the organizational level, ACCP recently submitted its 2018 white paper on interprofessional education (www.accp.com/docs/positions/whitePapers/Murphy_et_al-2018-Journal_of_the_American_College_of_Clinical_Pharmacy-2.pdf) as an example of the College’s commitment to interprofessional education in both classrooms and CLEs. The tools and resources submitted during the challenge will be shared at the October NCICLE meeting and placed in a resource repository on the NCICLE website. Once available, a link to the repository will be created on the ACCP website. The challenge is designed to be informative, meaningful, useful, and fun. It is a celebration of ideas and a way to pull NCICLE together in order to capitalize on the heterogeneity of its members. Please send any questions regarding NCICLE or the Teaming Resources Challenge to [email protected].