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University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada, R3T 2N2
The Office of Interprofessional Collaboration (OIPC) provides foundational education and practice experiences in interprofessional collaboration, supported by research and scholarly approaches.
Education, Practice and Research — these are the pillars of the OIPC. Each pillar strives to align with the Rady Faculty shared values of community and collaboration; scholarship and innovation, equity and inclusion; professionalism; and social accountability. (RFHS Strategic Framework 2016-2021).
The OIPC’s key objective is to expose all Rady Faculty students to the six competencies of 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.
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 630 learners per year currently stem from 10 different health professional programs within the Rady Faculty of Health Sciences:
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.
Curricular theme: Population health
IPC competencies (woven throughout the year’s teachings): team functioning, interprofessional communication and community-centred care
Face-to-face activities:
Curricular theme: Safety and quality care
Face-to-face activities:
IPC competencies (woven throughout the year’s teachings and building on year 1): role clarification, collaborative leadership and interprofessional conflict resolution
Students are encouraged to attend the Rady Faculty of Health Sciences annual Communities and Collaboration Symposium in May.
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:
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.
Advancing Leadership Performance and Capacity for Interprofessional Teamwork and Integrated Primary Healthcare. Halas G, Singh J, Singer A, Udod S, Gagnon S, Nagel D, Penner J.
Virtual Visits and Management of Primary Care in a Pandemic Environment. Halas G, Singer A, Katz A, Labine L, Kirby S, Wong S, Abrams E, Bohm E.
Care-seeking experiences of adults with substance use disorders. BScMed 2021. Bannash K, Halas G, Knight E.
Examining care pathways for individuals with substance use disorders: Using an integrated primary health care approach to bridge in-hospital consultation and primary care. BScMed 2021. Kingma G, Knight E, Halas G.
Integrated Primary Healthcare Pathways for Substance Use Disorder. Med II Summer Research 2021. Subedi P, Halas G, Knight E.
Through our newsletter, we work to support RFHS students and faculty as they develop their interprofessionalism through learning with, from and about one another to promote the health of Manitobans.
Office of Interprofessional Collaboration
Rady Faculty of Health Sciences
University of Manitoba (Bannatyne campus)
290 Brodie Centre, 750 Bannatyne Ave
Winnipeg, MB R3E 0W2
