nterprofessional collaboration (IPC) makes sense in terms of promoting better patient outcomes while improving the experience of patient care, and it should be cost-effective as well. However, IPC is only as successful as the principles and values that underlie the commitment to collaboration, as well as the fundamental values of the healthcare system attempting to apply it.

Healthcare has no margin for error in terms of ethics. Even when there is no clearcut answer, we all have to put in the work to develop the best solution possible under the circumstances. Yet we also understand that this rigor may be lacking.

Here, we have listed the suggested competencies for values and ethics in IPC, as provided by multiple major professional organizations. After each specific competency is a brief description of what can go wrong in this domain and how to avoid falling victim to such an event