EIPEN European Interprofessional Education Network

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• EIPENEuropean Interprofessional Education
  Network
• in health and social care

Dr Marion Helme, EIPEN Coordinator
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What are the aims for EIPEN and what is EIPEN
going to do?
There are two main aims

• To develop a transnational network in the partner
  countries Greece, Finland, Hungary, Poland,
  Sweden and the UK.
• To promote and share good practice and
  innovations in interprofessional education in
  health and social care in the classroom and in
  clinical practice, practice education and
  work-based learning.

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How did the idea for EIPEN develop and who are
the partners in EIPEN?

• 2002 HE Academy Subject Centres (Health Sciences
  and Practice Medicine, Dentistry and Veterinary
  Medicine (Medev) Social Policy and Social Work
  (SWAP)) set up collaborative projects in Ethics,
  Mental Health and IPE (the Triple Project, based
  at HSP in Kings College)
• 2003-4 TRIPLE IPE Project interviewed teaching
  teams, ran workshops and set up a website with a
  questionnaire involving over 200 people
  learning from each other about teaching
  interprofessionally.
• 2004 we were looking for ways of continuing and
  expanding 2005 Subject Centres encouraged to
  make international links
• Colleagues suggested people in universities who
  would be interested in setting up a European
  network then the universities identified
  non-academic organisations to join.
• Kings College London are signatories to contracts

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How did the idea for EIPEN develop and who are
the partners in EIPEN?

• The partnership has developed slowly over two
  years
• In 2005 our application to the Leonardo da Vinci
  Programme for transnational network funding was
  successful.
• Transnational network projects aim to amalgamate
  and develop European expertise and innovatory
  approaches
• We have 2 years funding 1 October 2005 to 30
  September 2007
• This funding is small and has to be matched by
  50 from partners
• But partners are engaged in activities congruent
  to the project aims and some have much
  experience of European Projects

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How did the idea for EIPEN develop and who are
the partners in EIPEN?
The EIPEN Partnership includes 8 budget holding
and 8 non-budget holding partners in 6 countries

• Higher Education Academy Health Sciences and
  Practice Network
• National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
  Greece
• The Greek Health Informatics Association, Athens
  Greece
• The University and the Polytechnic of Oulu
  Finland
• Department of Mental Health Services City of Oulu
  Finland
• The Friends of the Young Association, Oulu
  Finland
• Szechenyi Istvan University, Gyor Hungary
• Egyesített Egészségügyi és Szociális Intézmény
  United Health and Social Institute, Gyor Hungary
• Jagiellonian University, Krakow Poland
• Occupational Medicine Centre of the Malopolska
  Region Poland
• Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm Sweden
• Centrum för Allmänmedicin Karolinska Institutet,
  Stockholm Sweden
• The Primary Health Care Board, Stockholm County
  Council Sweden
• Centre for the Advancement of Interprofessional
  Education, London UK
• CIPW, South West Peninsula Strategic Health
  Authority UK
• Steve Crane Consulting Ltd UK

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What are the aims for EIPEN and what is EIPEN
going to do?

• EIPEN activities will include
• Developing/expanding national networks of people
  and organisations interested in IPE
• A programme of national, regional and
  international events
• A central web portal linked to partner sites
  which will include searchable metadata, moderated
  discussion, reports
• Preparing and disseminating reports and
  publications based on EIPEN events and activities

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What are the aims for EIPEN and what is EIPEN
going to do?
Specific roles and characteristics of partners

• Professions represented medicine, nursing,
  allied health and social work
• Non-academic organisations include services for
  children and young people, older people, mental
  health, community and residential services
• Co-ordination and reporting to Leonardo HE
  Academy HSP
• Web portal development Karolinska Institutet
• CAIPE consultancy on content
• Steve Crane evaluation and monitoring
• All partners (except Steve Crane) identifying
  potential members of EIPEN and IPE teaching
  materials etc., holding IPE events, contributing
  to the web portal content.

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Understandings of IPE in the EIPEN Partnership
(CAIPE definition Members (or students) of two
or more professions associated with health or
social care engaged in learning with, from and
about each other in order to improve service user
experience and the quality of care)

• Characteristics of IP learning and teaching in
  EIPEN Partnership
• Structural difficulties in professions learning
  together at pre-qualifying level (Greece,
  Hungary)
• Learning through working together (teams in NGO
  partners)
• Learning through teaching together (models in
  Finland, Poland)
• Interprofessional teaching (Sweden, Finland,
  Poland)
• Conceptualising practice biosocial, systems,
  inter projects (Finland, Hungary)
• Emphasis on public, community and environmental
  health and health promotion (Poland, Hungary)

EIPEN Learning together to work together
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(Some) decisions and actions November 2005

• Visits to all partners by two colleagues from UK
  Oct-Nov
• Contract signed with Leonardo 40 grant
  received
• Contracts being drawn up with budget-holding
  partners
• First Steering Group meeting held 14-15 November
  at Kings College
• Presentation by reps from each organisation of
  their IPE involvement
• Publicity material agreed draft programme of
  events material identified for websites
• Project officially launched on 15 November
• EIPEN conference will be in Krakow in Sept 2007
• Joint conference presentation abstracts in
  preparation