Interprofessional education: A review of context, learning and the research agenda
CONTEXT: Interprofessional education (IPE) is not a recent phenomenon and has been the subject of several World Health Organization reports. Its focus is on health professionals and students learning with, from and about one another to improve collaboration and the quality of patient care. The drivers for IPE include new models of health care delivery in the context of an ageing population and the increasing prevalence of long-term chronic disease, in addition to the patient safety agenda.
Interprofessional collaborative practice and relational coordination: Improving healthcare through relationships
The core values of both interprofessional collaborative practice (IPCP) and relational coordination (RC) include the provision of the best possible care through optimal communication between all participants involved in that care including professionals and support staff as well as patients and their families. Both approaches stress the need to build shared goals, shared knowledge and mutual respect across professional boundaries.
Working and Learning Across Professional Boundaries
This paper focuses on a context where interdisciplinarity intersects with interprofessionality: the work of children's services professionals who address the needs of children identified as vulnerable. It draws on evidence and perspectives from two disciplines – educational studies and health care – to consider the issues and challenges posed by learning and/or working across disciplinary boundaries and why these have proved so obdurate.
Interprofessional collaborative practice: A deconstruction
This paper uses (and perhaps abuses) deconstruction to revisit the meanings of collaboration and practice. We start with a description of deconstruction itself, as espoused by Jacques Derrida, and then move onto challenging the notion that words, such as collaboration, can have fixed meanings.
Practice-based Learning Across and Between the Health professions: A Conceptual Exploration of Definitions and Diversity and their Impact on Interprofessional Education
Practice-based learning (PrBL) occurs in all health professional training but there are intra- and interprofessional differences depending on context, location and professional identity. In this position paper I will explore the definition, context and elements of PrBL across the health professions, and their implications for interprofessional education (IPE).
Compassion: Wherefore Art Thou?
Compassion is a health professional value that has received a lot of attention recently. In this paper we consider the nature of compassion, its definition and its expression in practice. We further link compassion to patient-centred care. There is debate about whether compassion can be learned, and therefore assessed. There are similar discussions in relation to ‘professionalism’ and the effects of the hidden curriculum.
Competencies and frameworks in interprofessional education: A comparative analysis
Health professionals need preparation and support to work in collaborative practice teams, a requirement brought about by an aging population and increases in chronic and complex diseases. Therefore, health professions education has seen the introduction of interprofessional education (IPE) competency frameworks to provide a common lens through which disciplines can understand, describe, and implement team-based practices.
Interprofessional Health Education: A Literature Review
This review seeks to situate the contemporary Australian field of IPL/IPE within its history, nationally and internationally, in order to illuminate how it has taken the form and shape that it has, how it relates to international agendas in health and health professional education and shifts in the higher education sector, and to resource a research and development agenda for system-wide change. The review addresses the following questions:
Interprofessional Health Education in Australia: Report of the Launch of the Proposal The Way Forward
The national consultation undertaken in this project – Learning and Teaching for Interprofessional Practice, Australia (L-TIPP, Aus) – revealed many examples of innovative and successful interprofessional education (IPE) initiatives developed across the Australian higher education sector.
Partnering with Patients, Families, and Communities: An Urgent Imperative for Health Care
This report outlines recommendations from the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation conference "Patients, Families, and Communities: An Urgent Imperative for Health Care." The conference took place April 3 - 6, 2014 in Arlington, Virginia.
