System Matters in Education | SingHealth Duke-NUS

Date: Friday, 27 September 2024 | Time: 2.45pm - 5.50pm | Venue: Academia, L1-S1

Track Type: Main Conference Workshop

Speakers: Assoc Prof Kevin Tan, Assoc Prof Sabrina Koh Bee Leng, Dr Foo Yang Yann, Ms Catherine Poey, Ms Cheng Qianhui

Interprofessional education (IPE) is an increasingly popular education model that aims to educate healthcare professionals to be better collaborators by enabling them to learn with, from and about each other, to deliver improved team-based collaborative patient care. However, historical “waves” of IPE have fallen short of meeting this goal. IPE alone is a necessary but insufficient solution for system change. We must look “beyond the lamppost” (Paradis and Whitehead 2018) and embrace an education for collaboration model that is more rigorously supported by evidence that addresses workplace system and structures. The most efficacious models will combine undergraduate and uniprofessional education for collaboration with practice-based interventions.

Learning Outcome(s):

By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:

Understand the history and context of interprofessional education, in global perspective
Explain why interprofessional education may not automatically lead to interprofessional collaborative practice
Identify how implementation of interprofessional collaborative practice may be influenced by factors such as power, hierarchy, trust, systems and structures
Apply conceptual frameworks in the design of a research study for interprofessional education and collaborative practice
Explain the key conceptual frameworks and misunderstood assumptions used when discussing interprofessionality and education for collaboration

Target Audience:

Healthcare professionals and health professions educators who are interested in designing interprofessional educational activities or develop and implement interprofessional clinical programmes whose members practice collaboratively. Those who are skeptical about how most IPE is conducted at present are particularly welcome.

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