Defining and measuring construct of interprofessional professionalism.

convened in 2006, currently consists of 11 national organizations representing health professions programs at the doctoral entry level, and is developing a framework of “interprofessional professionalism”(IPP) around observable behaviors that illustrate what professionalism looks like in the context of interprofessional collaborations focused on patient-, client-, and family-centered care. IPC’s goal is to create tools to foster and measure these behaviors in health professionals and students. This paper describes the work of IPC to date and its future plans. J Allied Health 2012; 41(2):e49–e53.