The Partnered Learning Project

• Section 4 (page 1) provides an overview of the IPE Facilitator Workshop.
• The objectives of the workshop are to have the participants increase their knowledge and understanding of IPE placements, and to attain and/or develop IPE facilitator skills.
  

• Inviting educators, clinical coordinators and individuals who are interested in IPE to faculty development workshops encourages these individuals to consider serving as a facilitator in future IPE placements.
  
  
• To enhance active participation in the workshop you might:
  • Engage in an open forum discussion on the concept of IPE placements and the benefits to students, preceptors and teams.
  • Use videos and case examples to illustrate the content.
  • Limit the use of PowerPoint presentations.
  • Providing joint workshops, as we did between SickKids and Toronto Rehab, offers exciting interprofessional and inter-organizational perspectives. The key concepts are the same. Attention should be paid to include some organization specific themes such as Family Centred Care in pediatrics.
    
    
• At the end of the workshop we asked the participants to complete a contact information sheet if they were interested in facilitating a future IPE placement. A growing list of trained IPE facilitators will be instrumental as IPE continues to develop and be implemented in the organizations.
  
  
• Feedback from the facilitators after completing an IPE placement, was that the content in the workshop had proven useful and helpful in their planning process.
  

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• Despite the interest and the list of trained IPE facilitators, we had only 1 individual answer the call to co-facilitate our last IPE placement. A regularly cited barrier to acting as an IPE facilitator is that of professional time constraints. The IPE leader might consider co-facilitation of the IPE placements to be part of their role in the early stages, until regular facilitators have been established.
  

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