Inter-professional Education and Health

Moving toward a Health Canada vision of inter-professional education and health practice

The World Health Organization and Health Canada has identified inter-professional education and practice as an innovative strategy to mitigate the global and national health workforce shortage. Health Canada established a mandate to provide inter-professional education (IPE) to foster and provide a collaborative, patient-centered practice knowledge base. Patients receive better care when health providers from all health disciplines work closely and learn from both their patients and other health care colleagues.  

This project provides an advisory team and research support for Marian George to complete her Ph.D. in Advanced Education at the University of Calgary in the area of IPE. The project examines the supports and barriers to establishing IPE programs that align and support patient-centered models of health practice.   

Advisory Team:

• Marian George - RDC Nursing Instructor
• Scott Oddie - RDC Rural Health Research Chair

Current Status:

Marian, Sheila and Scott are on the Inter-professional Education and Practice Working Group of the Building Healthy Communities Through Collaboration and Learning Charter. There appears to be a lack of partnership support from AHS without a provincial scope and additional institutional partners (e.g. Olds College) in the collaboration. We have prepared an ARDN grant to bring IPE and IPP stakeholders in Alberta to a discussion table and Knowledge Café to be held at RDC. Project development and implementation is in progress.  

For more information contact: Dr. Scott Oddie or phone 403-342-3310.