IPR.Global PEARLS: Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice (IPECP) in Post-COVID Healthcare Education and Practice Transformation Era

The COVID-19 Pandemic produced significant disruptions in all aspects of life across the world. Globally, no region avoided the impact that this crisis created. It particularly stressed healthcare delivery systems with regard to resources and personnel, requiring collaboration, creativity, and resilience of health professionals, institutions, and policy makers. Educational institutions felt a similar impact where, in March 2020, many universities and colleges were forced into a new pedagogical paradigm of remote learning with online and hybrid delivery methods.

These conditions reinforced the need for interprofessional collaboration in educational and healthcare and many of the lessons learned from innovations that were developed in response to the pandemic have produced a lasting impact on persons and institutions. Our purpose is to explore and discuss the impact and application of healthcare education and practice transformation on interprofessional education and collaborative practice (IPECP) during the post-COVID era (from a global perspective) with the goal to identify best practices to integrate and sustain IPECP.

This report provides information in two sections:

IPECP and Healthcare Education and Practice at a Cross Point: The future of healthcare relies on our successful and systematic evolution out of the pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic has placed healthcare at a crossroads of either viewing it as a temporary situation that requires short-term solutions, or as a major disruption that presents opportunities for innovation for sustainable development and transformation.

From Momentum to a Movement: Ways to Integrate and Sustain IPECP in Healthcare Education and Practice: As the landscape of higher education and healthcare is continuing to evolve to meet the growing needs and expectations of students, patients, and communities, it is time for the IPECP leaders to reflect on the changing societal trends, demographics, diversity, and technologies in becoming more adaptable for the future. The healthcare digital transformation and technologies are here to stay and grow, and the sustainability and growth of virtual learning and practice in IPECP will be reliant on how we best utilize them to meet the IPECP agenda and goal of achieving Quintuple Aim.

The Report is accessible here: https://interprofessionalresearch.global/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/IPECP-in-Post-COVID-Healthcare-Education-and-Practice-Transformation-Era-Joint-Discussion-Paper.pdf

IPR.Global Research & Leadership Awards Nominations due January 16th

The InterprofessionalResearch.Global (IPR.Global) Research and Leadership Awards recognize interprofessional scholarly works and leadership that exemplify excellence in the following Award Categories:

Barbara Fifield Brandt IPR.Global Award – The Barbara Fifield Brandt IPR.Global Award will recognize an academic – practice partnership team that demonstrates impact on learner and health outcomes through sustaining and connecting interprofessional education and collaborative practice in community-based practice settings serving vulnerable and high-risk populations.

Hugh Barr Global Award – The Hugh Barr IPR.Global Award will recognize an interprofessional team for the evaluation of an outstanding example of collaboration between academic institutions and health/social service delivery organizations in high/middle-income and low-income countries to promote and sustain interprofessional education and collaborative practice.

John H.V. Gilbert Global Award – The John H.V. Gilbert IPR.Global Award will recognize the author of an outstanding interprofessional doctoral dissertation, published in the past three years (since 2019), that has resulted in a learning paradigm which brings interprofessional education and learning to interprofessional collaborative practice in a practice setting where practitioners, students and patients have been engaged in developing measurable interprofessional high quality care. 

IPR.Global Distinguished Leadership Award – The IPR.Global Distinguished Leadership Award recognizes outstanding leadership of an individual/team who have made transformative, inclusive, measurable, and sustainable contributions to the promotion, implementation, evaluation, and/or advancement of interprofessional education, collaborative practice, and/or research in and across their educational/practice/network settings with a global impact.

The IPR.Global Research and Leadership Awards aim at honoring innovative interprofessional scholarly work in the format of partnership, evaluation, research, or dissertation work, accompanied by outstanding interprofessional leadership that has had a positive sustainable impact on the academic/practice/community with notable contribution to the interprofessional education and collaborative practice field at the global level.

Who Is Eligible?

Nominations for the award may be made by individuals (John H.V. Gilbert IPR.Global Award and IPR.Global Distinguished Leadership Award) or by teams/partnerships (Barbara Fifield Brandt IPR.Global Award, Hugh Barr IPR.Global Award, and IPR.Global Distinguished Leadership Award) from academia, practice, service users/consumers and/or students.

Nominations may be made by individuals external to the project. Please be advised that the Application Form, however, must be completed by the Nominee/s (Applicant/s).

Award Nomination Website: https://interprofessionalresearch.global/bestresearchawards/

IPR.Global Publishes 2022 Global IPE Situational Analysis Results Final Report

The Global Network for Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice Research [InterprofessionalResearch.Global (IPR.Global)] and the Global IPE Situational Analysis Working Group is pleased to announce the publication of the 2022 Global IPE Situational Analysis Results Final Report E-Book. This e-book, as an up-to-date global IPE report after the World Health Organization Study Group on IPECP environmental scan in 2010, (Rodger et al., 2010), presents the results of 2020-2021 global IPE situational analysis survey conducted by the IPR.Global in collaboration with the Interprofessional.Global. In total, 152 academic institutions from six regions worldwide contributed to the study. As reported in this e-book, despite the significant growth of IPE program development across the globe, the integration, sustainability, and growth of institutional-level IPE remains a top priority around the globe. The e-book presents the recent global uptake of IPE along with the micro-, meso-, and macro-level processes that support (or hinder) the IPE programs development and implementation across the globe. The results are presented both at the global and regional levels. This e-book also shares the gained insights on the global status of IPE This e-book also shares the gained insights on the global status of IPE with the global IPECP community that they can use it in their advocacy towards IPE integration and sustainability in their institutions and regions during the post-COVID healthcare education and practice transformation. To learn more, here is the link to the full Final Report.  You are welcome to widely distribute this free of charge e-book with your colleagues, students, institutions, and networks. Please visit us at https://interprofessionalresearch.global/ for additional resources, publications, and the 2023 IPR.Global Awards (due by January 16th, 2023).  Should you require additional information, please do not hesitate to contact us at ipresearch.global@gmail.com.

IPR.Global Names Inaugural Honorees of the Barbara Fifield Brandt Award

InterprofessionalResearch Global is pleased to announce the the inaugural honorees of the Barbara Fifield Brandt IPR.Global Award is Dr. Priya Martin BOT, MS, PhD and team from the University of Queensland (Australia) for their project entitled: Rural Interprofessional Education and Supervision Project (RIPES). Congratulations to Dr. Martin and the UQ team!

The Barbara Fifield Brandt IPR.Global Award recognizes an academic – practice partnership team that demonstrates impact on learner and health outcomes through sustaining and connecting interprofessional education and collaborative practice in community-based practice settings serving vulnerable and high-risk populations.

To learn more and watch Dr. Martin's project presentation, visit the IPR.Global website: https://interprofessionalresearch.global/20-21ipr-global-bra/

The 2022-2023 IPR.Global Research & Leadership Awards Application is now available! 

Information and submission link posted on the IPR.Global website: https://interprofessionalresearch.global/bestresearchawards/

Call for Applications - 2022-2023 IPR.Global Research & Leadership Awards

The InterprofessionalResearch.Global (IPR.Global) Research and Leadership Awards aim at honoring innovative interprofessional scholarly work in the format of partnership, evaluation, research, or dissertation work, accompanied by outstanding interprofessional leadership that has had a positive sustainable impact on the academic/practice/community with notable contribution to the interprofessional education and collaborative practice field at the global level.

The IPR.Global Research and Leadership Awards recognize interprofessional scholarly works and leadership that exemplify excellence in the following Award Categories:

Barbara Fifield Brandt IPR.Global Award

The Barbara Fifield Brandt IPR.Global Award recognizes an academic – practice partnership team that demonstrates impact on learner and health outcomes through sustaining and connecting interprofessional education and collaborative practice in community-based practice settings serving vulnerable and high-risk populations.

Hugh Barr IPR.Global Award

The Hugh Barr IPR.Global Award recognizes an interprofessional team for the evaluation of an outstanding example of collaboration between academic institutions and health/social service delivery organizations in high/middle-income and low-income countries to promote and sustain interprofessional education and collaborative practice.

John H.V. Gilbert IPR.Global Award 

The John H.V. Gilbert IPR.Global Award recognizes the author of an outstanding interprofessional doctoral dissertation, published in the past three years (since 2019), that has resulted in a learning paradigm which brings interprofessional education and learning to interprofessional collaborative practice in a practice setting where practitioners, students and patients have been engaged in developing measurable interprofessional high quality care. 

Global Distinguished Leadership Award 

The IPR.Global Distinguished Leadership Award recognizes outstanding leadership of an individual/team who have made transformative, inclusive, measurable, and sustainable contributions to the promotion, implementation, evaluation, and/or advancement of interprofessional education, collaborative practice, and/or research in and across their educational/practice/network settings with a global impact.

Learn more at: https://interprofessionalresearch.global/bestresearchawards

Application Submission is open till September 30th, 2022 at 11:59 PM PST

2022-2023 Application Form

2022-2023 Application Guidelines

Application Submission Link

Introducing Interprofessional Research.Global "Pearls"

Building on the success of our Scholar Spotlight series, the Interprofessional Research.Global Communications and Marketing Work Group have teamed up with the Knowledge Exchange Work Group to develop IPR.Global Pearls.  

The goal of this initiative is to share impactful research on interprofessional collaboration to a wider audience through an infographic that presents the how that research can translate to the "3 P's" of Pedagogy, Practice and Policy.  

Each of these infographics with be accompanied by a blog post that will link readers to the article citation and full text link.

If you have research you would like to feature in these "Pearls" please use the IPR Global Updates submission link.