Our Mission
To promote relational learning for healthcare professionals that integrates patient and family perspectives, professionalism, and the everyday ethics of clinical practice

In the News

In a letter to the editor to the New York Times written in response to an article examining how the costs of medical care impact on end-of-life decisions, IPEP's Senior Scholar, David Browning, MSW, reminded readers of how important it is for those decisions to be made in the context of trusting and compassionate relationships with healthcare professionals.

International Collaboration

Regione Lombardia in Italy recently awarded the prize of "Health Promoting Hospital" to San Paolo Hospital in Milan for the work Giulia Lamiani, EdM, MS and her colleagues are doing with the Italian PERCS project.

Recent Publications

IPEP founders’ article “Difficult Conversations: Improving communication skills and relational abilities in health care” was published in May’s Pediatric Critical Care Medicine.

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IPEP's Director, Elaine Meyer, PhD, RN, was interviewed about the article.

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Workshop Spotlight

IPEP's Difficult Conversations in Healthcare: Pedagogy and Practice workshop is a day-long faculty development course that offers the opportunity to learn about an innovative philosophy and pedagogical approach for teaching and enhancing relational capacities and communication skills in healthcare professionals who work in a variety of academic and clinical settings. Join us for the next offering of this workshop on June 12, 2010!

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Teaching Tools

IPEP uses award-winning films to enhance learning in many of our workshops. Read more

Our Location

The IPEP office and conference space is located at Children’s Hospital Boston in Waltham, Massachusetts.

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