Fig. 2

Examples of the categorization of eligible statements from the pharmacy accreditation standards document [36]. A “non-applicable” statement refers to a statement that was identified as potentially being relevant to IPE but upon analysis was found to be not relevant. For instance, we cannot unquestionably determine that statement #1 referred to interprofessional competencies. Similarly, statement #2 generally described collaborative intra-institutional and inter-institutional endeavors, with no specific reference to IPE. An “applicable” statement encompassed an explicit IPE expression. An “accountable” statement was one to which the accrediting organizations held their respective academic programs accountable. Statement #3 expressed this definition clearly. A “non-accountable” statement was one to which the accrediting organizations could not hold their respective academic programs accountable, such as statement #4, which was located in the preface of the document