An Editorial by Lesley Bainbridge, UBC College of Health Disciplines

My interest in interprofessional collaborative practice stems back a long way to my days as a clinician. When working with the frail elderly, we had an amazing team comprising medicine, nursing, physical therapy, occupational therapy, social work, pharmacy, psychology, psychiatry, nutrition, music therapy, pastoral care, recreation and I’m sure there were more. We met formally and informally. We loved the residents. We had fun. We  were all competent in our own professions and comfortable in our professional skins.  And, we were polite to each other. 

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“Croakey: The Crikey Health Blog” has just posted an op-ed entitled “Some thorny questions on home medicine reviews, medical publishing and other matters” which has some interesting observations including a bit of a discussion about collaborative practice and some thought-provoking comments by Ann Larson.

Just a reminder that CIHC Mainstream has launched and we’re interested in including anyone in the practice community who wants to get involved in moving interprofessional collaboration forward in the workplace.  We’re in the process of setting up some small groups focusing on topics health practitioners have told us are important to them – developing networks, sharing success (and failure) stories and advising the CIHC Steering Committee on how to make  collaborative practice the norm in the practice environment.  If you’re interested in learning more, see the Mainstream page of our website http://www.cihc.ca/regional/mainstream or contact the CIHC Communications Director at communications@cihc.ca.