IPEPI: Interprofessional Education and Practice Inventory
PURPOSE:
Teamwork has become an integral part of health care delivery. Such emphasis on teamwork has generated the need to systematically measure and improve the learning and performance of health care teams. The purpose of this study was to develop a comprehensive assessment instrument, the Interprofessional Education and Practice Inventory (IPEPI), to evaluate learning and performance in interprofessional health care teams.
METHODS:
A comparative study of professional and interprofessional values between health professional associations
The need for effective interprofessional collaboration to ensure safe patient care is crucial. However, health professions are guided by separate professional codes of conduct. To examine whether professional codes are consistent across professions, this review examines 13 key health professional associations in the United States and compares their values to the guiding principles of interprofessional practice defined by the Interprofessional Professionalism Collaborative (IPC).
Participation in an Interprofessional Health Fair: Student Perceptions of Teamwork and the Role of Faculty
INTRODUCTION Development of interprofessional skills is increasingly recognized as a critical component in the preparation of health professionals. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact of preparation and participation in an interprofessional educational experience on health professions students’ perceptions of teamwork and communication skills.
Design and Evaluation of interprofessional cross-cultural communication sessions
The 2013 National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) call for healthcare professionals to provide quality care and services that are responsive to diverse cultural health beliefs and practices. Accreditation organizations for health professional programs require their curriculum to adequately prepare future practitioners for serving culturally and linguistically diverse populations. Another common curricular need of health professional programs is interprofessional education (IPE).
Mapping Collective Sensemaking in Communication: The Interprofessional Patient Case Review in Acute Care Rounds
INTRODUCTION Observational studies of the actual practices of interprofessional collaborative practice (ICP) are needed to complement research on the determinants and consequences of collaboration. This naturalistic study of team communication maps a key practice: the patient case review in daily rounds. Here, ICP is conceptualized as collective sensemaking, or the joint description of the patient’s situation and associated action planning—a fundamentally communicative practice.
New Models of Care Demand New Models of Learning
With the addition of two team members and as an approved provider of Joint Accreditation for Interprofessional Continuing Education™, we are strengthening our ability to offer new interprofessional education and training focused on our goal of achieving the Triple Aim.
Collaborative Overload
Harvard Business Review article on potential collaboration overload. An interesting perspective from the business world that may apply to the IPE field.
Collaboration is taking over the workplace. According to data collected by the authors over the past two decades, the time spent by managers and employees in collaborative activities has ballooned by 50% or more. There is much to applaud about these developments—but when consumption of a valuable resource spikes that dramatically, it should also give us pause.
Leveraging mobile smart devices to improve interprofessional communications in inpatient practice setting: A literature review
As mobile smart device use has increased in society, the healthcare community has begun using these devices for communication among professionals in practice settings. The purpose of this review is to describe primary literature which reports on the experiences with interprofessional healthcare communication via mobile smart devices. Based on these findings, this review also addresses how these devices may be utilized to facilitate interprofessional education (IPE) in health professions education programs.
Preparing Students for Team-Based Care for Vulnerable Populations
Health professionals have an obligation to improve both the health of the individual and the public in a time of scarce resources. The Institute of Medicine (IOM), Healthy People Curriculum Task Force and professional education accreditation standards indicate the need for health care professionals to demonstrate competencies related to community engagement, basic health promotion skills and the ability to work effectively in interprofessional teams.
Collaborative Change Leadership™: A Certificate Program for Healthcare and Health Education Leaders October 21-22, 2016
Collaborative Change LeadershipTM (CCL) is an accredited, certificate program offered by the University Health Network (UHN) in collaboration with the University of Toronto Centre for Interprofessional Education (CIPE). This advanced leadership program is aimed at senior and high potential leaders in healthcare and health education. Five in-class sessions will be held from October 2016 - June 2017.
