Proceedings of the 10th Congress of Health Professions Educators
Maximizing Your ROI: Collaboration and Quality in Distance Learning
Proceedings of the 9th Congress of Health Professions Educators
Faculty Shortages Across the Health Professions: Implications for Teaching and Workforce
In recent years, health professions educators and administrators have increasingly witnessed and have thus begun attempting to address faculty shortages across the spectrum of health professions, perhaps most acutely in allied health, dentistry, nursing and pharmacy. The development of new curricula and the aspiration to expand community-based education have exacerbated concerns about adequate, qualified faculty.
Review of Interprofessional Education in the United Kingdom, 1997-2013
This review of pre-registration interprofessional education in the United Kingdom over the fifteen year period 1997-2013 was undertaken by the Interprofessional Education Research Group and part funded by the UK Higher Education Academy.
Drawing on three sources: the literature, an online survey and reflective accounts by invited teachers with follow-up interviews, it seeks to provide an up-to-date picture of inter-professional education (IPE), representing the responses of 52 educational institutions relating to 63 IPE courses or modules.
Implementing Interprofessional Education in a Clinical Practice Setting for a Mixed Student-Provider Population
The attached PDF provides a brief summary of a five week-long course on interprofessional education. The course took place in a clinical setting for a mixed student-provider population, and consisted of two, face-to-face sessions and five, on-line modules. The on-line modules were part of a comprehensive, interactive course website through the Moodle interface. The PDF also contains a brief overview of course results, and places the experience within the broader context of the field of IPECP.
Transforming health professionals' education
This editorial is a commentary on Health Professionals for a new century: transforming education to strengthen health systems in an interdependent world.
The status of interprofessional education in Canada
This article describes the history and development of interprofessional education (IPE) in Canada from its conceptual beginnings in the 1960s to today. The status of IPE in Canada is viewed in relation to the broader international movements for IPE and collaborative healthcare. The current goals and principles of the Canadian Interprofessional Health Collaborative are reviewed, and the future of IPE is considered in light of these goals.
World Health Organization Announcement
The urgency for action to enhance human resources for health internationally was recently highlighted by the World Health Report 2006: Working Together for Health which revealed an estimated worldwide shortage of almost 4.3 million doctors, midwives, nurses and support workers. The 59th World Health Assembly recognized this crisis and adopted a resolution in 2006 calling for a rapid scaling-up of health workforce production through various strategies including the use of "innovative approaches to teaching in industrialized and developing countries."
Introducing InterEd
Ideas for an international association had been debated between interprofessional exponents on both sides of the Atlantic ever since the 1997 All Together Better Health conference. Those ideas became tangible when John Gilbert and his colleagues at the University of British Columbia volunteered to take the lead encouraged by influential supporters worldwide.
