An Introduction

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An Introduction to Interprofessional
Education Michael Gibson www.ipe.org.uk
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Overview

• What is Interprofessional education?
• Why do we do it?
• What IPE will we experience?

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What is Interprofessional education?

• Occasions when two or more professions learn
  with, from and about each other to improve
  collaboration and the quality of care"
• CAIPE, (the UK Centre for the Advancement of
  Interprofessional Education

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Aims of Interprofessional Education

• To generate a greater appreciation of
  professional roles within the healthcare system
• To develop an understanding of the importance of
  communication between healthcare professionals
• To demonstrate how interprofessional
  collaboration can improve the effectiveness of
  team working and ultimately patient care

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Why do we do it?

• Teamwork and cohesion are vital to the delivery
  of patient care
• Establishment of an ethos of co-operative working
  among health care professionals must ultimately
  benefit patients
• For this to be successful it has to start in the
  undergraduate teaching curriculum
• From the Scottish Executive policy document
• The right medicine by Bill Scott, Chief
  Pharmaceutical Officer for Scotland

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Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain

• States
• There is now general acceptance that a much
  greater proportion of professional development
  from undergraduate education to CPD - should
  involve mixed groups from more than one
  profession
• The benefits for each profession, and for
  integrated and effective clinical team work, are
  clear
• Schools of Pharmacy should explore the use of
  interprofessional teaching
• Recommendation 13 in Making Pharmacy Education
  Fit for the Future, RPSGB December 2003

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What does each profession do?

• Pharmacist
• Occupational Therapist
• Physiotherapist
• Speech and Language therapist
• Dietitian
• Nurse
• Radiographer
• Social Worker

• Health Visitor
• General Practitioner
• Hospital Doctor
• Paramedic
• Nutritionist
• Consultant
• Surgeon
• Paediatrician
• Gynaecologist

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What IPE will we experience?

• IPE throughout the MPharm course
• Continuing Professional Development
• Everyday working

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IPE in the MPharm

• In each year of the course
• Different methods of delivery
• Workshops
• E-learning
• Interactive tutorials
• Different places
• Garthdee
• Foresterhill
• Edinburgh

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Large scale IPE workshops

• Involving students from all health and social
  care courses in Aberdeen
• Nursing
• Medicine
• Nutrition and dietetics
• Occupational therapy
• Pharmacy
• Physiotherapy
• Radiography
• Social work
• Workshops in 1st and 2nd year

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IPE in 3rd 4th year

• E-learning
• Edinburgh
• Elsewhere

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www.ipe.org.uk

• Background to IPE
• Overview of IPE in Aberdeen
• Further reading
• Used for highlighting teaching information
• Session venues, times etc.
• Handouts
• Feedback, questions re. IPE

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Your feedback is important

• Questionnaire data
• Written session evaluation
• E-mails, verbal feedback etc.

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Summary

• Aims of IPE
• Greater appreciation of professional roles
• Increased understanding of importance of
  communication between healthcare professionals
• ? Effectiveness of team working
• Continuous not just at undergraduate level
• In each year of the course
• A variety of delivery methods