Interprofessional capability framework
This capability framework was informed by the orginal Canadian competency framework published in 2010 but describes interprofessional competencies/capabilities in the Australian education context. More specifcally Curtin University's health science faculty which includes 26 disciplines.
Collaborating Across Borders IX
Collaborating Across Borders IX Co-Hosts Announced
University of Nebraska Medical Center and Creighton University to co-host North American IPE meeting in May 2025
Nexus Summit 2024
Save the dates for the Nexus Summit 2024: September 25, 26, 30 and October 1, 2024.
Geriatric 5Ms Workshop for Primary Care
This interactive workshop (materials freely downloadble and editable) has 4 modules that follow an older adult in the outpatient setting, focused on Mobility, Mind, Medications, What Matters/Multicomplexity.
Interdisciplinary studio-based work-integrated learning
This guide is based on lessons learned from a 12 month project titled 'Archietcuring health' that brought together students studying a health professional qualification with architecture students and staff. The aim of the project was to explore how health and wellbeing can be optimised through interdisciplinary collaboration and space activation. The guide's aim is to assist staff to create, implement and evaluate interdisciplinary work integrated learning utilising design thinking - specifically studio-based learning - as a key element.
Interdisciplinary Project-Based Work-Integrated Learning:
This Guide is designed to inform the incorporation of interdisciplinary project-based learning into undergraduate or postgraduate programs. Interdisciplinary project-based learning provides an opportunity for university staff, students, and industry partners to enhance their capabilities through collaborating on authentic problem solving.
A kickstart guide to interprofessional fieldwork (clinical placements)
Based on experiences with interprofessional education in health professional education, this guide provides the key approaches to establish effective interdisciplinary/interprofessional team learning during clinical placements/rotations. The guide can be used to establish an interprofessional team based placement or program of placements with multiple industry hosts. The guide gives an overview of the essential dimensions required to establish and evaluate interprofessional placements. This includes tips, suggested readings and several proforma tools.
Communities of clinical practice in action: Doing whatever it takes
Ethnographic examination of nine communities of clinical practice, in one general practice setting, caring for patients with long-term conditions. The study finds that CoCP are driven by the moral imperative to care, at some cost, accounting for the ‘messiness’ of community-based care.
Transition to practice: can rural interprofessional education make a difference?
This study investigated student learning experiences over the first two complete years of the programme, comparing responses from participating students with those from a cohort of non-participating peers. This study finds that if multiple learning objectives can be met concurrently in well supported rural IPE programmes, learning outcomes can be maximised for a wide range of health professional students in ways that are sustainable and beneficial for local communities.
Patients’ and health professionals’ perceptions of teamwork in primary care
This study aimed to test both the feasibility of undertaking a collaborative method of enquiry as a means of investigating patient perceptions about teamwork in the context of their current health care, and also to compare and contrast these views with those of their usual health professionals in New Zealand suburban health practice settings.