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Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice

Request for a Special CIHR Competition

October 2007

CIHC is funded by Health Canada www.cihc.ca

Objectives

• Describe HC IECPCP strategy

• Outline research objectives of CIHC

• Evidence requirements for patient centred care

• Discuss opportunities for special CIHR competition


Goals of IECPCP Interprofessional Education for Collaborative Patient Centred Practice

• To improve patient care by ensuring that the patient is at the centre of attention and care of multiple professionals

• To align health education curricula and students’ skills with health systems needs and policy

• To explore the potential of interprofessional education and collaborative practice to address some health system challenges


Health Canada IECPCP funding• 21 projects; CIHC as complementary project• $20 million• April/July 2005 – 11 projects [cycle 1]• December 2005 – 10 projects [cycle 2]• Projects implement and evaluate:

– Interprofessional Education (IE) – Collaborative Practice (CP)– Integrated models of IE & CP

• Methods, approaches and results have been shared as part of each mandate during the award time


CIHC – whole greater than the parts• Brings together multiple Canadian projects that focus

on IE and CP – unique accumulation of expertise• Provides platform for knowledge sharing and

networking • Events (e.g. Western Provinces meeting)• Creates synergies through joint activities –

subcommittees (Research, Education Evaluation, Partnership, Knowledge Transfer)– CIHC Research and Evaluation committees mapping of

gaps in understanding and evidence; summary of theories that can guide IE and CP research


Gaps in Research• Understanding IE and CP processes that are linked

to effective patient care• Types of complex health care for which CP is

effective, feasible, and efficient • Cost analysis of IE and CP • Application of IE and CP to primary health care and

across the continuum to tertiary care services• Change management for IE and CP• Lack of theory driven IE and CP research• Leadership requirements for IE and CP


Relevance of IE and CP research• Areas / CIHR Institutes:

– Aging, chronic diseases, mental health and addiction: Complex chronic disease care is enhanced with a team approach

– Health services and policy: Barriers to CP include regulation, liability, scope of practice restrictions

– Population and public health: CP needs to extend to primary health care and across the care continuum to meet population health mandate


Funding opportunities• Currently limited funding opportunities for

specific IE and CP research• Health Canada funding has started to build

research capacity• Increased awareness of IE and CP as

important elements of HHR planning and management

• With Health Canada funding scheduled to end in spring 2008, there is a risk that continued learning will remain localized


Request for special CIHR competition• Opportunity to build on the work created over

the past three years and build capacity for sustainable system change in a relatively short time

• Proposed areas of focus:– Analysis of impact of IE on CP and outcomes on

patient, provider and system level– Testing of models of collaborative practice– Developing process and outcome measures– Implementation models– Connecting education and practice


What CIHC can contribute• Identify gaps and key questions to be

answered• Nominate panel of expert reviewers

nationally and internationally• Link researchers across the country to

maximize the generalizability of findings• Continue to update CIHR with important

findings


More Information

– John H.V.Gilbert, CIHC Project Lead [email protected]

– Brenda Sawatzky-Girling, CIHC Program Manager [email protected]

– Sue Beardall, Senior Policy Advisor, IECPCP Lead, Health Policy Branch, Health Canada [email protected]

CIHC Research Sub-Committee Co-Chairs: – Jennifer Medves, Associate Professor, Queen’s University

[email protected]– Hassan Soubhi, Professor, University of Sherbrooke

[email protected]– Esther Suter, Research Consultant, Calgary Health Region

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