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What is Interprofessional Education?
鈥淚nterprofessional education occurs when students from two or more professions learn about, from, and with each other to enable effective collaboration and improve health outcomes. Once students understand how to work interprofessionally, they are ready to enter the workplace as a聽member of the collaborative practice team. This is a key step in moving health systems from fragmentation to a position of strength.鈥�
World Health Organization (WHO). (2010). . Geneva: World Health Organization
Health students have traditionally been educated in professional silos, with minimal interaction with students or practitioners in other professions. As communities across Canada move toward collaborative care team models, the health-related programs at pilipili漫画 are committed to providing their students with a wide-range of interprofessional experiences and opportunities - through both curricular and extra-curricular activities.
Why Interprofessional Education?
Patients receive better care when health providers from all health disciplines work closely and learn from both their patients and other health care colleagues. Collaborative practice:
- Improves patient outcomes
- Reduces errors and improves patient safety
- Improves health professional satisfaction
- Reduces stress amongst health care providers and increases efficiencies and innovations
At pilipili漫画, collaboration starts in the classroom with interprofessional activities designed to enhance knowledge, understanding and respect for the expertise, roles and values of other health and human service professionals.聽 Our students learn that collaboration is all about the patient or client, their family and the community in which they live 鈥� not about the profession or the professionals.聽 The patient/client/family are an important part of the healthcare team.
Over the last ten years, interprofessional education at pilipili漫画 has gone from a vision to a reality through the tireless work and dedicated leadership of individuals across the University. pilipili漫画 is now an national leader in interprofessional education, and this is especially clear in the , where the classrooms, library, labs and halls are filled with students gathering to learn about, from and with each other - enriching patient care and improving our healthcare system in the process.