Transforming and scaling up health professionals’ education and training: WHO Education Guidelines 2013
These guidelines call for new approaches in health professionals’ education. Approaches are needed that transform systems and encourage the move away from the traditional focus on tertiary care hospitals to initiatives that foster community engagement. The guidelines recommendations support and advocate for implementation considerations in efforts to involve communities and countries collectively for this transformational change in health professionals’ education.
Health Professionals for a New Century: Transforming education to strengthen health systems in an interdependent world
The Lancet Commission, consisting of 20 professional and academic leaders from diverse countries, came together to develop a shared vision and a common strategy for postsecondary education in medicine, nursing, and public health that reaches beyond the confines of national borders and the silos of individual professions. The Commission adopted a global outlook, a multiprofessional perspective, and a systems approach. This comprehensive framework considers the connections between education and health systems.
Framework for action on interprofessional education and collaborative practice
At a time when the world is facing a shortage of health workers, policymakers are looking for innovative strategies that can help them develop policy and programmes to bolster the global health workforce.
The Framework for Action on Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice highlights the current status of interprofessional collaboration around the world, identifies the mechanisms that shape successful collaborative teamwork and outlines a series of action items that policy-makers can apply within their local health system.
How to build high-quality interprofessional collaboration and education in your hospital: the IP-COMPASS tool
Interprofessional education (IPE) is an important contributor to ensuring interprofessional collaboration and, ultimately, improving the quality of health care. However, there is a gap in available resources on critical success factors for implementing intentional interprofessional learning experiences. The Interprofessional Collaborative Organizational Map and Preparedness Assessment (IP-COMPASS) is a quality improvement framework that provides a structured process to help health care organizations become better prepared to offer IPE.
Interprofessionality as the field of interprofessional practice and interprofessional education: an emerging concept
This paper proposes a new concept and a frame of reference that should permit the development of a better understanding of a phenomenon that is the development of a cohesive and integrated health care practice among professionals in response to clients' needs. The concept is named "interprofessionality" and aims to draw a clear distinction with another concept, that of interdisciplinarity. The utilization of the concept of interdisciplinarity, which originally concerns the development of integrated knowledge in response to fragmented disciplinary knowledge, has caused some confusion.
Interprofessional Care: A Blueprint for Action in Ontario
Interprofessional Care: A Blueprint for Action in Ontario identifies approaches that will help to integrate interprofessional care into existing systems, legislation and infrastructures. This Blueprint was developed following a year-long process of obtaining input from decision-makers and leaders in the health care and education sectors, as well as consumers. Achieving effective implementation of interprofessional care requires a comprehensive action plan that identifies the roles each partner or participant should undertake.
Interprofessional Collaborative Organization Map and Preparedness Assessment (IP-COMPASS)
IP-COMPASS is a quality improvement framework to help clinical settings become better prepared to provide intentional interprofessional learning experiences (i.e., learning experiences that help students develop skills for interprofessional collaboration). It provides a structured process to help you understand the types of organizational values, structures, processes, practices and behaviours that, when aligned, can create an environment that is conducive to interprofessional learning.
Curricular Frameworks and Institutional Initiatives for IPE: Examples from the University of British Columbia & University of Toronto
Establishing curricular frameworks and institutional infrastructure for interprofessional education is critical to sustainability and effectiveness. Presenters Lesley Bainbridge and Ivy Oandasan share their experiences regarding building and establishment of sustainable interprofessional education infrastructure at the University of British Columbia and the University of Toronto.
InterProfessional Education (IPE) in Appalachia: A faculty workshop
Conference Theme:
Guided opportunity for faculty to plan Interprofessional Education activities. This InterProfessional Education (IPE) faculty workshop will provide an opportunity for university faculty in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia to understand the national initiative on IPE and work with experts in planning IPE activities for use with students.
Learning Objectives:
At the end of the InterProfessional Education (IPE) Faculty Workshop, the
participants should be able to:
American Interprofessional Health Collaborative Webinar
Creating Exceptional Interprofessional Teaching and Learning in Clinical Settings: The University of Toronto Journey