An amazing video on future directions for medicine and health care from the classic TEDMED lectures in February 2009.

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Students in the University of Arizona’s Health Sciences Center to participate in interprofessional training.

Interprofessional student teams collaborate with community professionals and residents to promote health by changing something in the community, for example, the services offered to victims of domestic violence.

Communities love to collaborate with the students because it allows the community to increase their ability to improve the health of residents.

For more information visit http://vihsta.ahsc.arizona.edu/

Awards of Merit for Excellence in Interprofessional Education
Awards of Merit are available annually:
o Excellence in Interprofessional Education Teaching
o Outstanding Leadership in Advancing Interprofessional Education
o Outstanding Team Role Modeling Interprofessional Care

• Closing date for nominations is April 15th, 2010 at noon. No late submissions will be considered.
• As part of your nomination package, please specify in which of the three categories the nominee should be considered.
• Individuals/teams who have been previously nominated and have not won an award remain eligible to apply.

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We are thrilled to announce that the first version of CIHC’s National Competency Framework is now online and being disseminated across Canada. We know this is a document that many have been eagerly awaiting, and we hope you find it helpful and useful to your work.

In keeping with tradition, we welcome comments, suggestions, corrections or recommendations for this document, and we will consider all comments with care. Feel free to leave feedback as a comment to this blog post!

There are two documents, a ‘Quick Reference Guide’ (which is also contained within the larger document, or can be extracted for those who want to quickly scan an overview of the competencies), and the longer, complete Competency Framework.

Quick Reference Guide, CIHC National Competency Framework

CIHC National Competency Framework

The Student-to-Clinician Task Force is always looking for new and enthusiastic students, clinician and educators with an interest in the transition process from education to practice.

They would love to build a partnership with your group and would be very happy if you would send a representative(s) to their next meeting on Sunday February 7th, 2010.

Please email Susan Tam (susan.tam[at]hamilton[dot]ca) with the name and contact info for your representative and she will connect with them to work out the details.

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Sign up now for EHPIC Interprofessional Education Faculty Development 2010!

Looks like it’ll be great!

Welcome to the first post that I’ll be writing to help friends and colleagues at CIHC understand the power, scope and potential of social media.

I am working on finishing a document right now called “Social Media 101: A simple guide to understanding how to utilize and interact with the CIHC Blog, Facebook, Twitter and RSS Feeds.”

It’s a catchy name, I know.

That document will be available here on the Blog, too, but I think that it’s important for friends and colleagues to see some of the true visionaries of our time discuss these ideas.

I believe that these documents and videos will help us to further develop our approach to using social media tools to improve interprofessional collaboration and increasingly put the patient first.

If you have not yet watched Dr Jennifer Gardy’s amazing TEDx Terry lecture on Health Care in the 21st Century then that’s an excellent place to start.

Please comment below with any questions or suggestions that you may have.

The Medical University of South Carolina and Creating Collaborative Care (C3) had its fifth annual Interprofessional Day on January 8, 2010. Interprofessional Day was an all-day event that involved all first and second year students – approx. 1,150 students.

For more information, click here.

In 2006 John Gilbert (CIHC Project Lead), gave a speech on Interprofessional Education in Primary Healthcare.

For a larger version of this file please click right here.

These are some cartoons relating to interprofessional collaboration that have been commissioned by the CIHC and are ‘Open Source‘ which means they are free for all to use.

Please feel free to copy them to your computer and share them (right click on your mouse and choose ’save image as’ in the drop down menu. Then give the file a name that you will remember later (this is very important )

If you have any questions or if you need higher-resolution images please contact me at sean@cihc.ca.

Have a great weekend!