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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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!

This is a great video produced by the good folks at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center on their Interprofessional Education Program.