Increasing Interprofessional Collaborative Competencies in OT Education

Abstract

Date Presented 04/06/19 Interprofessional education (IPE) is increasingly emphasized in educational curricula. Despite this, variation exists regarding methods for implementation and delivery of such content. As such, development of course content emphasizing interprofessional collaboration in OT education is critical. Results following an IPE course among students from three professional disciplines demonstrate increased knowledge of teamwork and collaborative care. Primary Author and Speaker: Whitney Lucas Molitor Additional Authors and Speakers: Allison Naber Contributing Authors: Angela MacCabe, Julie Johnson

Integrating Social Work Into Interprofessional Education

“…The IPE Curriculum is competency-based, built on an original competency framework created for the UT (UT, 2007) and later used as the foundation of the American Interprofessional Education Collaborative (2016) core competencies and adapted in the Canadian Interprofessional Health Collaborative (CIHC) framework (2010). Here, collaborative competencies are described as the dimensions of competence which every profession needs to collaborate within its own ranks, with other professions, with non-professionals, within organizations, between organizations, with patients and their caregivers, with volunteers, and with community groups (Barr, 1998;Molitor, Naber et al, 2019). Competencies addressed in the Canadian and American competency frameworks are similar, although the categorization of dimensions and nomenclature varies somewhat.…”