Interprofessional collaboration

OIPC Education develops and delivers curriculum focused on enriching collaborative skills for interprofessional practice for all first- and second-year students in the Rady Faculty of Health Sciences.

This team comprises an interprofessional team of faculty members from each of the five Rady Faculty Colleges: Dentistry/School of Dental Hygiene, Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy and Rehabilitation Sciences.

A blended learning approach for students

All first-year learners across the Rady Faculty are placed into interprofessional teams, where they learn with, from and about one another over two years.

The roughly 600 learners per year currently stem from nine different health professional programs within the Rady Faculty of Health Sciences:

• Dental hygiene
• Dentistry
• Medicine
• Nursing
• Occupational therapy
• Pharmacy
• Physical therapy
• Physician assistants
• Respiratory therapy

A blended learning approach delivers foundational education in interprofessional collaborative practice, combining face-to-face synchronous activities with on-line facilitated asynchronous discussions, embedded within existing program courses.

The OIPC Practice team supports interprofessional practiced-based learning opportunities for students in the Rady Faculty of Health Sciences.

While interprofessional practice opportunities occur in many diverse environments, this team has a particular interest in supporting placements in northern and rural communities.

We support:

• Ndinawemaaganag: Interprofessional community engagement with Indigenous communities
• Rural and remote practice-based opportunities
• Student-led interprofessional practice activities
• Interprofessional simulation

The Rady Chair in Interprofessional Collaborative Practice works within the OIPC. The Chair is focused on interprofessional collaborative practice research and scholarship and advancing knowledge that will improve the quality of patient care, patient safety, retention of health-human resources and delivery of cost efficiencies.

In addition to providing leadership in training, educating, and mentoring future leaders in interprofessional practice, the Chair builds upon collaborative relationships between educational and practice systems promoting excellence in patient care, quality and safety.

The 4th annual Communities & Collaboration Symposium will be taking place virtually this year on May 5th. Follow this link for event and submission details.