The Partnered Learning Project

Project Handbook

A Guide to Early Planning for the Development of an Interprofessional Collaboration and Education Program in a Healthcare Setting


4.0  Tips on Selecting Teams


Questions to Consider

 

1. Identifying your Participants:  Is participation intended to be voluntary? Click here for more information...

What is the level of participant knowledge, skills and team function that your proposed program is most suited to?  Are there meaningful incentives for participation?  Are prospective participants aware of the incentives?

 

2. Establishing Eligibility: Are there established eligibility criteria for participation? Click here for more information...

By whom and by what means are prospective participants assessed against the criteria?

 

3. Co-ordinated planning with Participant Teams:  Will someone on the clinical team facilitate access and/or assist with communications & co-ordination of implementation tasks? Click here for more information...

Is there a time when the team is regularly scheduled to gather that you can co-ordinate your schedule to?  Is space a problem and will you need to take this into account when you propose times and places to meet with the team?  Are there key individuals whose presence will significantly impact the learning experience and do you know when any such individuals are available?

 

4. Readiness to Learn:  Have participants had prior exposure to the subject matter? Click here for more information...

Do the participants have competing commitments that may impact their experience or engagement?  Are there special learning needs among the team members that should be taken into account?

 

Our Story

PLP Challenges and Strategies
  1. Not all teams have regular meeting schedules or facilities.  This made the initial introduction of the project to prospective participants more difficult to co-ordinate.
      Whenever possible the team sought and nurtured a relationship with a team member who would actively support team participation.

  2. The size of clinical teams varied widely.  There were special challenges associated with larger teams (> 20 people).  Team size impacted recruitment, data gathering, and overall engagement in the project.

    As soon as a participant team was identified a very short introductory meeting was scheduled with as many team members as possible.  Ongoing information about the project was made available via email and directly from the Research Assistant and IPE lead.  Questions were invited at any time.


  3. Large teams in particular asked for more specific eligibility criteria to help them identify who amongst the members were appropriate or preferred candidates since the workshop aimed to engage between 10 and 20 team members.

    Where team size was very large we invited a team leader to suggest how best to focus the workshop recruitment.


  4. Across the target professions we were least successful in recruiting and engaging medical staff, particularly physicians for the team workshops.

    As the project proceeded we became more specific in our recruitment messages about the growing consensus of the importance of physicians and nurses to actively participate in the IPC/IPE activities.

 

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