The concept of interprofessional teamwork and education is not new. Health professionals and commissions have been recommending a team approach to health care for decades. In the 1950’s, Silver (1958) supported changes to medical education and advocated for a team approach for preventative and therapeutic family care. In the 1960’s, Szasz (1969) found little integration in learning among the health professions and proposed a plan for how interprofessional education (IPE) might be accomplished. The first Institute of Medicine (IOM) conference in 1972 produced a report that discussed the importance of establishing substantive relationships between educational programs for the health professions (IOM, 1972). In 1998, the Pew Commission (O'Neal, 1998) identified interdisciplinary teamwork as one of 21 essential competencies for this century. The IOM reports on health professions education (2003) and the future of nursing (2010) both included a call for health professionals to develop interprofessional competency and the need for interdisciplinary practice to be integrated into educational models.