The Partnered Learning Project

Timeframe

• 18 month project from January 2008 to June 2009

Study Purpose

1. To increase interprofessional collaboration capacity in staff and students
2. To gather descriptive data, providing insight into the processes of interprofessional collaboration (IPC) and interprofessional education ( IPE), and describe some early outcomes of these experiences 

Partners
& Location

• Three teaching hospitals in Ontario, providing variation in organizational characteristics such as location, patient populations, experience with IPE placements, and organizational readiness for promoting IPC.
• SickKids (Toronto); Toronto Rehabilitation Institute (Toronto); Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (Ottawa);

Implementation Schedule

• Pilot IPC workshop Apr ‘08, IPE placement Apr – Jun ‘08
• Phase I = 3 teams (Oct-Nov ’08); Phase II = 2 teams (Mar-Apr ’09);

Study Subjects

• Clinical healthcare team members and students on placement with these same teams

IPC / IPE Educational Activities

• Design and deliver IPC workshop to team members, aimed at increasing awareness of  team’s own collaborative practices while introducing IPC concepts and language to better enable team members to support student IPE learning during their placements
• Train facilitators to lead a series of IPE tutorials for students while on placement
• Design and deliver IPE tutorials for students from multiple professions in conjunction with their placements

Research Method

• Mixed method – qualitative and quantitative
• Ethnographic data from observations & interviews, plus quantitative survey data

Sustaining Value
& Outcomes

• Materials, curriculum, data and ultimately scholarly work
• Grant deliverables
• Participant Reports & Feedback
• Knowledge  & lessons as groundwork for future program development
• Partner organizations have increased staff capacity in IPC & IPE