Integrated Behavioral Health
About Integrated Behavioral Health (IBH)
IBH, providing medical and behavioral health care together, is an evidence-based strategy that utilizes team-based care in a collaborative model for enhancing access, improving patient outcomes, reducing stigma, and promoting health care equity.
IBH promotes enhanced collaboration between medical and behavioral health practitioners, often with support from care managers, to provide comprehensive patient care. Identifying clinical and business goals, workforce requirements, and training opportunities will contribute to successful implementation. The AAMC is committed to advancing and promoting the uptake of IBH models in both primary and specialty care and to identifying the optimal use of technology as a complement to these models of care.
The AAMC also advocates for federal policies that enable providers to adopt and expand IBH patient care models, thereby reducing stigma and promoting access to care.
AAMC Integrated Behavioral Health Webinar Learning Series
In the interest of advancing IBH implementation within academic medicine, the AAMC launched a free four-part webinar series. Each webinar highlights considerations for implementing IBH, core competencies for interdisciplinary training, use of technology in integrated care, and lessons learned and promising practices from newly established and long-standing programs. Access the recordings, key takeaways, and accompanying resources.
For more information, email mentalhealth@aamc.org.
AAMC Integrated Behavioral Health (IBH) Awards
Applications Now Open for the 2024 Integrated Behavioral Health Awards
We are proud to announce the second annual award program for AAMC-member institutions striving to make mental health care more accessible.
Previously known as the Mental and Behavioral Health Training Awards, which were designed to recognize innovative training programs focusing on skills for integrated care, the 2024 Integrated Behavioral Health (IBH) Awards will now recognize advancements and excellence in both training programs and integrated clinical delivery models.
Applicants are encouraged to apply to the AAMC IBH Awards if they are engaging in innovative methods to provide effective and equitable integrated care or equip trainees with the skills to provide high-quality and accessible integrated care.
An award offer includes $20 - $25k and an opportunity to participate in a year-long workshop series developed in partnership between AAMC and the Collaborative Family Healthcare Association (CFHA). The workshops will cover a variety of topics related to IBH sustainability with a special emphasis on metrics and evaluation for IBH programs.
Application Deadline: April 12th at 11:59p.m. ET
2024 IBH Award Call for Applications
2023 Mental and Behavioral Health Training Awards
Learn more about the 2023 award winners.
Advocating for IBH
The AAMC also advocates for federal policies that enable providers to adopt and expand IBH patient care models.
AAMC Holds Virtual Congressional Briefing on Integrated Behavioral Health (Oct. 14, 2022)
Learn about the AAMC’s congressional briefing, which includes the association’s legislative recommendations to expand the behavioral health workforce.
For questions about the AAMC’s behavioral health advocacy, contact gov-relations@aamc.org.