Supporting Collaborative Practice
This collection of resources contains teaching and learning resources that help the user support and develop collaborative practice within the practice education environment.
The Interprofessional Practice Education Guide is a useful resource for educators who wish to incorporate interprofessional experiences during a student’s practice education setting. The guide consists of an introduction to interprofessional education & its competencies, things to consider when running interprofessional education sessions, and a list of different education activities that students can be involved in on site.
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The iOSTE is a useful set of resources for clinical educators that are facilitating a group of interprofessional students, providing preceptorship to an interprofessional student team, and evaluating the team’s communication and patient care capacities. The iOSTE consists of a Facilitator Guide, Facilitator Preceptor Instructions, Standardized Student Guide, Team Observation Form, Evaluation Rubric, and Debriefing Facilitator Guide.
The Facilitator Guide provides suggested actions and scripts to use in the three scenarios. The Facilitator Preceptor Instructions provides the schedule, timeline, and information to prepare for each scenario. The Standardized Student Guide provides each scenarios’ instruction to students and their respective roles. The Team Observation Form is for the preceptor to assess the students on their IP patient-centered communication, IP team-based communication, and care plan. The Evaluation Rubric is for students to assess the preceptor’s behavior. The Debriefing Facilitator Guide consists of reflection questions for the faculty preceptor to give student learners to reflect on their IP experience.
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The BCCH CAPE Tool is a useful tool for both students and clinical educators/practitioners who wish to reflect on and gain an understanding of their current level of comfort and ability to engage in the different interprofessional collaboration competencies.
It is a tool based on the CIHC National Competency Framework. The tool consists of a rubric that allows for individual reflection on each of the different subcomponents under the six different CIHC competencies; it is self-assessed based on a 4-point-scale. It also outlines a series of reflection questions/points for self-reflection or discussion, with regards to the different interprofessional competencies. The completion of the self-assessment will allow the user to reflect on their areas of strength and development, to help serve as a guide for further improvement in their interprofessional collaborative competencies.
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The Team Effectiveness Tool is a useful assessment tool for healthcare teams wanting to periodically assess their development/improvement as an interprofessional body. Periodic completion of the tool will allow for evaluation of the team’s progress over time and provide direction for further changes, as the collected responses can be discussed for interpretation and future planning.
The assessment criteria includes six key elements (team purpose and vision, roles, communication, service delivery, team support, and partnerships), which is assessed out of a 7-point Likert Scale; room for comments is provided.
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The Collaborative Care Alliance Guides v 4.0 consists of three guides: Collaborative Care TEAMDFINDER (CCTF), Collaborative Care Activation Inventory (CCAI), and Collaborative Care Resource Inventory (CCAI). The CCTF is a self-assessment tool for care teams to recognize their patients, settings, and team roles & connections. The CCAI is a self-assessment tool for care teams to recognize and strengthen the characteristics of the work environment that help collaborative care emerge. The CCRI is a discussion tool for care teams to recognize different contextual resources that are useful in the collaborative care environment; care teams discuss these resources to learn about each role’s perspective.
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Activity #3 – Participation in a Team Meeting is a useful guide for learners (students) that engage in team meetings during their clinical placement. Students are provided with learning objectives, prior considerations, and reflective questions.
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Activity #2 – Shadowing a Patient is a useful guide for learners that are shadowing a team member during their clinical placement. Students are provided with learning objectives, suggested interview questions, and reflection questions once they have arranged their opportunity to shadow another profession.
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The Preceptor eLearning Course is a useful set of modules for preceptors that are hoping to improve upon their skillset as mentors to students.
The modules are designed to provide information and support to preceptors and focus of five different topics: the preceptor role, teaching & learning, evaluating students & delivering feedback, supporting students, and fostering interprofessional learning experiences.
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TBC on the Run is an open access online module series designed to promote collaborative models of practice and support the development of team-based competencies. This online module series is based on the National Interprofessional Competency Framework developed by the Canadian Interprofessional Health Collaborative (
www.cihc-cpis.com).
The TBC on the Run module series includes:
1. Foundations of TBC
2. Interprofessional Communication
3. Patient/Client/family/Community-Centred Care
4. Role Clarification
5. Team Functioning
6. Interprofessional Conflict Management
7. Collaborative Leadership for Shared Decision-Making
Each module takes 30 minutes to complete online individually and provides activities and resources to engage with others.
For more information, visit UBC Health: TBC on the Run.
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The National Interprofessional Competency Framework, created by the Canadian Interprofessional Health Collaborative (CIHC), is a useful resource for all learners (students and educators) that are hoping to gain a sound understanding of the six different competencies of interprofessional education. These competencies are well-researched and can be utilized by the educating community as important cornerstones when building and facilitating interprofessional curricula. For students, the competency framework can serve as a guide for continual growth and learning in an interprofessional practice setting. The CIHC literature review, which guided the development of the framework, can be accessed here.
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