Context Patients as educators (teaching intimate physical examination) first appeared in the
1960s. Since then, rationales for the active involvement of patients as educators have been …

Background and Purpose. Interprofessional collaboration in health care is now considered a
high priority, as concerns about patient safety, health and human resources shortages, and …

The College of Health Disciplines, at the University of British Columbia (UBC) has a long
history of developing interprofessional learning opportunities for students and practitioners. …

Many studies examine the impact of interprofessional (IP) interventions on various health
practice and education outcomes. One significant gap is the lack of research on the effects of IP …

Background: Community service-learning (CSL) has been proposed as one way to enrich
medical and dental students’ sense of social responsibility toward people who are …

The overall goal of interprofessional education and collaborative practice is to provide health
system users with improved health outcomes. Interprofessional collaboration (IPC) occurs …

Given their enormous socioeconomic burdens, lifestyle-related noncommunicable diseases
(heart disease, cancer, chronic lung disease, hypertension, stroke, type 2 diabetes mellitus, …

The individual Teamwork Observation and Feedback Tool (iTOFT) was devised by a
consortium of seven universities in recognition of the need for a means of observing and giving …

In the absence of an interprofessional competency framework in Canada, the College of
Health Disciplines (CHD) at the University of British Columbia developed a universally …

Interprofessional education (IPE) engages students from different healthcare professions for
learning with, from and about each other to improve collaboration and quality of care. …