WORLD FIRST IN INTERPROFESSIONAL COLLABORATION

Australia played host to a world first in interprofessional collaboration in April as delegates from around the world competed in the first ever International Health Care Team Challenge (Inter HCTC). Hosted as part of the biannual All Together Better Health V (ATBH5) conference in Manly, Sydney, the Inter HCTC saw two multi nationality, interprofessional teams compete in front of an audience in a live demonstration of the cutting edge in interprofessional education (IPE). The challenge was held on the last day of the conference which ran from April 6-9 at the Novotel Sydney Manly Pacific.

The international event was a collaboration between The University of Queensland’s HealthFusion Team Challenge (HFTC), the University of British Columbia’s Health Care Team Challenge (HCTC), the Health Sciences Students’ Association of Canada (HSSA/AÉSS) and the Australian National Rural Health Students’ Network (NRHSN).

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Students, educators and other professionals from the health care practice community descended on the Sheraton Hotel in downtown Hamilton, Ontario this past weekend to participate in the 2010 NaHSSA Conference.

The National Health Sciences Students’ Association did a great job of organizing their yearly gathering and bringing together some of the brightest lights in the future of Canada’s collaborative interprofessional health care.

The theme for this year’s event was Interprofessionalism: At the Heart of Healthcare.

The three day event featured some cool events like the Ontario Health Care Team Challenge as well as inspiring and informative speakers, and the election of the incoming executive council at the Annual General Meeting.

One of the highlights of the weekend was the Conference Gala that was held at the excellent Art Gallery of Hamilton.

The weekend featured some great presentations by Dr John Gilbert, Dr Alan Neville, Dr Nick Kates & an strong finale by Dr Patty Solomon.

All in all a great weekend in Hamilton. The organizers should be proud of their work.

I hope that the strong feeling of community and collaboration that existed among all the participants this past weekend continues into the future.

You can check out more photos from the 2010 NaHSSA Conference on their Facebook Page. Click @NaHSSA to follow them on twitter.

And… because social media is a huge collaborative tool the CIHC would like to invite you to join us on Facebook, too. And click @CIHC_ca to follow our tweetings.

See you next year!

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!

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.

Please take the time to watch this excellent presentation by Dr. Jennifer Gardy from the TEDx Terry 2009 event at UBC.

A truly ‘TED-worthy’ presentation. Inspiring work from the GlobeCampus Nerd Girl herself!

You can also follow her on twitter @jennifergardy and, while you’re at it, you can follow us on twitter @cihc_ca.

Let’s make new connections and improve our collaborative networks!

We just returned from the CHLA/ABSC 2009 annual conference in Winnipeg, MB this year, and we had a great time! The CIHC Library was very well received, our presentation (rushed just a tiny bit at the end!) went smoothly and we got some great questions and met a ton of supportive librarians along the way. The slides are now available on Slideshare, so feel free to take a look!

Nice to see the Dalhousie newspaper not only reporting on CABII, but getting a bit into the issues and importance of interprofessional education and collaborative practice.  Nicely done!

http://dalnews.dal.ca/2009/05/22/borders.html?utm_source=dalnewsRSS&utm_medium=RSS

We have now posted the slides from the CIHC Library presentation on Slideshare, in case you missed it, or just want another look!

Thanks again to everyone for a great conference!

Congratulations to the organizers and participants at Collaborating Across Borders II in Halifax, which took place May 20-22.  The Conference was truly amazing, with more than 450 participants and 150 presentations.  The only frustration (other than slow elevators) was the fact that there were so many quality presentations, it was impossible to attend everything you wanted to see.  CIHC was well represented by the steering committee and a huge number of members.  We also launched our brand-new-look presentation booth (be honest, did you notice it was different?)  

Great show everyone!  It was great to come together again, and spend some time talking about the work we’ve done over the past year.  Looking forward to seeing everyone in Australia for All Together Better Health.  Thanks for making CABII such a success!