We hear routinely from groups of interprofessional students that they want organic opportunities to interact and "just get to know one another" before being expected to work together during formal interprofessional education (IPE) events. In response, our IPE collaborative, which is a joint effort between Johns Hopkins Schools of Medicine, Nursing and Public Health and the Notre Dame of Maryland School of Pharmacy, developed an introductory "social" IPE event that precedes other IPE programming that our students participate in during their respective professional programs. The goal of our IPE…