The Partnered Learning Project

• Refer to Section 1 (page 4) of the manual re: lessons learned from the Toronto Rehab experience.
• Section 3 (page 36) provides a sample IPE placement presentation handout for the Clinical Team.
  

• Selecting highly collaborative and willing teams helps facilitate the implementation of an IPE placement. However, more critical to the success of the placement is the IPE Lead’s knowledge of the various professional groups’ student placement schedules and planning a placement tutorial series around student availability.
  

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• The teams that hosted IPE placements were selected because of their interest in participating in the study. Selecting teams without taking into account the presence and timing of student placements resulted in a challenging process. Implementing an IPE placement proved to be easier when the team was selected based upon student availability. For example, if 5 interprofessional students are doing a General Medicine rotation it would be logical to engage them in an IPE experience.
  
  
• The agreement by a clinical team to host a student IPE placement should not be interpreted as meaning that the team has a full understanding of their role in hosting an IPE placement. The IPE lead should establish regular communication with the team to facilitate a smooth transition from the more familiar practice of hosting individual student placements to hosting an IPE placement. It is helpful to try to include at least one in-person meeting, which can be held in conjunction with staff meetings or rounds. Teams with a less well defined structure or schedule can be more difficult to engage as a group. In these instances scheduling meetings with individual staff members may be more effective.
  
  
• The team responsibilities in an IPE placement include: being aware that the placement is occurring; welcoming the students and acknowledging the nature of the placement; allowing for interprofessional activities to occur (e.g., supporting students shadowing different professions); and contributing to opportunities for students to learn “from, with and about” other professions.
  
  
• The IPE Lead can help prepare the team to fulfill their role by describing the kinds of activities the students will be engaged in during their tutorials and when they are working alongside their preceptors. Involving the team in scheduling shadowing opportunities and setting up the placement will increase the likelihood that the placements will be successful.
  
  
  

• SickKids IPE placement program overview -Team (see Resources IPE Plcmt Handout – Team)
  

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