Obstet Gynecol Clin N Am 39 (2012) 423–434 http://dx. doi. org/10.1016/j. ogc. 2012.05. 010 obgyn. theclinics. com 0889-8545/12/$–see front matter© 2012 Published by Elsevier Inc. of the Year project. 2, 3 The purpose of this article is to describe this ACOG-ACNM successful and sustained collaborative practices project and to report the analysis of 12 of the 60 papers submitted for the project. The 1972 IOM report, Educating the Health Team, 4 proposed that academic health centers educate health professions students together and that other educational institutions affiliate with interdisciplinary education programs. The report further recommended that faculty become skilled in interdisciplinary teaching and model interdisciplinary practice. The IOM report authors envisioned that this cooperation would result in better use of the workforce and improvement in the quality of care. The landmark IOM report Crossing the Quality Chasm provided a new focus on improving the quality of care through collaboration, recommending that our new health systems be “safe, effective, patient centered, timely, efficient, and equitable.” This goal can be reached by “redesigning the way health professionals are trained to emphasize the six aims for improvement,. placing more stress on teaching evidence-based practice and providing more opportunities for interdisciplinary training.” 5 (pp3, 6) Building on that work, the IOM published Health Professions Education: Building Bridges to Quality in 2003 and emphasized that “all health professionals should be educated to deliver patient-centered care as members of an interdisciplinary team, emphasizing evidence-based practice, quality improvement approaches, and informatics.” 6 (p3) More recently, the October 2010 IOM report The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health included these 2 important points:“nurses should practice to the full extent of their education and training” and “nurses should be full partners, with physicians and other health care professionals, in redesigning health care in the United States.” 7 (pp4, 7)