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This editorial explores how we can establish synergies between the field of informatics and the interprofessional field. The authors first provide some defining characteristics to help understand the nature of informatics and then discuss the array of functional (and dysfunctional) uses when designing and implementing informatics in healthcare.

In this editorial, the author explores the continued rise of competency frameworks in the interprofessional field. He outlines the growth of interprofessional competency frameworks and discusses some of the benefits they offer before examining their current shortcomings.

The Institute of Medicine's seminal report To Err is Human (Kohn, Corrigan, & Donaldson, 2000) argued that to improve quality and safety, health care organizations needed to create interprofessional training opportunities for practitioners to learn interpersonal and technical skills in safe, simulated environments.

In this editorial, I extend this discussion by drawing upon the seminal work of C. Wright Mills (1967) who developed the notion of the ‘sociological imagination’ to provide a way of understanding, more deeply, the influences of different societal phenomena on the lives of individuals. I use this notion to argue why its use has a number of advantages for broadening our knowledge about the interprofessional field.

In this editorial, the authors examine some of the current limitations of interprofessional simulated learning activities and suggest the use of a sociological approach to help enhance the quality of this form of learning and improve its transferability to interprofessional practice.

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To date, within the interprofessional field there has been little effort to problematize key interprofessional concepts, interprofessional activities (courses, workshops), or evaluative approaches we have employed.  In this editorial, the author  elaborates on the importance of problematizing the elements embedded in our interprofessional work.

In this editorial, the author aims to ‘take stock’ of interprofessional education and interprofessional practice – empirically and theoretically – before sketching out some ideas for the future development of the field.
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Interprofessional education, continuing interprofessional education, interprofessional collaboration, and interprofessional care are moving to the forefront of approaches with the potential to reorganize the delivery of health professions education and health care practice. This article discusses 7 key trends in the scholarship and practice of interprofessional education: conceptual clarity, quality, safety, technology, assessment of learning, faculty development, and theory.

A central obstacle that faces governments and service providers alike is the acute shortage of health professionals — with all projections indicating the situation will certainly worsen as the skilled workforce shortage hits in the coming decades (Health Canada 2006).

Background: The Student Perceptions of Physician-Pharmacist Interprofessional Clinical Education (SPICE) instrument contains 10 items, 3 factors (interprofessional teamwork and team-based practice, roles/responsibilities for collaborative practice, and patient outcomes from collaborative practice), and utilizes a five-point response scale (1 = strongly disagree, 5 = strongly agree).