Using Interprofessional On-Line Cases to Enrich the Teaching and Learning of Clinical Competencies

The McGill Educational Initiative on Interprofessional Collaboration:

Partnership for Patient and Family Centered PracticeMcGill University

N. Posel, D. Fleiszer, Y. Steinert, C. Birlean L. Asseraf-Pasin,

Good things, when short, are twice as good. 

Baltasar Gracian, The Art of Worldly Wisdom

Presentation Overview

1. Review the role of interprofessionalism in healthcare

2. Define relevant learning theories and their roles in building professional and interprofessional competencies

3. Demonstrate the e-case model currently in development at McGill university

Interprofessional Practice

“The healthcare system is in need of reform…...improvements will come when health care providers work more effectively in teams and when they have the competencies to practice in increasingly accountable and technological environments.” (Stephenson, 2002)

Interprofessionalism & Healthcare

Interprofessionalism in the Clinical Setting

Attitudes & Perceptions – Building Trust and Respect

Skills & Areas of Expertise – Redefining Boundaries

Interprofessionalism & Healthcare

Knowledge – Transfer & Sharing

Practitioners, learners, patients, their families & the environment

Interprofessionalism in the Clinical Setting

Interprofessionalism & Healthcare

Develop common, complementary and collaborative competencies

Interprofessional e-Cases

Learning Theories

1. Approximate actual situations in which interprofessional teams practice within a ‘real-life’, clinically meaningful

environment (D’Eon. 2005)

2. Be sufficiently complex that they cannot be done alone, thus reinforcing collaborative competencies (Steinert, 2005)

3. Allow participants to move towards interdependent collaboration using the case scenario to accent teamwork, communication and enriched quality of

patient and family care (Barr, 2005)

Design Features

The e-Case Model in Development at McGill

1. Flexibility in mandates and leadership roles

2. Virtual ‘real’ environment:

Multimedia

Hyperlinks

Prompts and access to teaching modules

3. Access to expert and learner summaries and associated rationales

Design Features

The e-Case Model in Development at McGill

4. Realistic and meaningful case scenarios

5. Supportive of collaboration and reflection

6. Able to be archived for use, reuse and repurposing

7. Potential for distance and patient education

Interprofessional e-Cases

The e-Case Model in Development at McGill

The McGill Model

Using Interprofessional On-Line Cases to Enrich the Teaching and Learning of

Clinical Competencies

Nancy PoselNancy.posel@mcgill.ca