Examples of initiatives in interprofessional education

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Examples of initiatives in interprofessional education

The table below provides examples of some interprofessional education initiatives in various teaching and learning contexts.

Example	Teaching and learning context	Reference
Incorporation of an interprofessional learning strand into 10 health and social care professional organisations	Undergraduate health and social care students	Barrett G, Greenwood R and Ross K (2003) Integrating interprofessional education into 10 health and social care programmes. Journal of Interprofessional Care. 17(3 August): 293–301.
Implementation and evaluation of a shared learning programme	Final-year medical and social work students	Carpenter J and Hewstone M (1996) Shared learning for doctors and social workers: evaluation of a programme. British Journal of Social Work. 26: 239–57.
Pilot programme in interprofessional education (IPE) delivered and evaluated to assess whether there is value in learning together and the outcomes of different types of IPE	Pre-registration house officers, pharmacists and student nurses	Kilminster S, Hale C, Lascelles M, Morris P, Roberts T, Stark P, Sowter J and Thistlethwaite J (2004) Learning for real life: patient-focused interprofessional workshops offer added value. Medical Education. 38: 717–26.
Using community-based studies of disabled children and their families to provide an interprofessional learning (IPL) exercise for medical and nursing students	Medical and paediatric nursing students	Street KN, Eaton N, Clarke B, Ellis M, Young PM, Hunt L and Emond A (2007) Child disability case studies: an interprofessional learning opportunity for medical students and paediatric nursing students. Medical Education. 41: 771–80.
An attempt to highlight the issues of professional stereotypes within the context of mental health and subsequent implementation and evaluation of an IPE programme to address some of these issues	Community mental health teams, including social workers, mental health nurses and psychiatrists	Barnes D, Carpenter J and Dickinson C (2000) Interprofessional education for community mental health: attitudes to community care and professional stereotypes. Social Work Education. 19: 565–83.
The development and delivery of a programme for health professional students in which they learn the principles of collaborative learning and teamworking skills in rural healthcare placements	Medical and nursing students on rural healthcare placements	McNair R, Brown R, Stone N and Sims J (2001) Rural interprofessional education: promoting teamwork in primary health care education and practice. Australian Journal of Rural Health. 9(Suppl.): 19–26.
Development and piloting of a two-day workshop in interprofessional team building	Faculty and students from nine health programmes at the University of British Colombia	Gilbert JHV, Camp RD, Cole CD, Bruce C, Fielding DW and Stanton SJ (2000) Preparing students for interprofessional teamwork in health care. Journal of Interprofessional Care. 14(3): 223–35.
Development of a strategy for interprofessional collaboration using case studies that focus on collaboration between physicians and nurse practioners in delivering healthcare to the community	Nurse practitioners and family physicians	Way DO, Busing N and Jones L (2002) Implementing Strategies: collaboration in primary care – family doctors and nurse practitioners delivering shared care. Ontario College of Family Physicians, Toronto.