Health Care Team Challenge: An Enhanced Fieldwork Placement Strategy for

Interprofessional Learning and Teamwork

Placement Course ShowcaseUniversity of Queensland

31st October 2007Dr Rosalie Boyce, Ms Monica Moran & Team

Presentation Team

Dr Rosalie Boyce, School of Pharmacy

Ms Monica Moran, School of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences                                                                     Ms Emma Poulsen, School of Pharmacy

Ms Jessica Page student, Physiotherapy, SHRS

Mr Brady Schulz student, School of Human Movement Studies

Ms Bridget Palmer student, Speech Pathology, SHRS

Ms Michelle Mowat student, Occupational Therapy, SHRS

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Outline

• Placements in health professions

• Interprofessional education & learning

• Innovation - International collaboration

• 2005-9 development of UQ HCTC model

• HCTC event

• Future enhancements

• Student Voice

• Questions

Minister for Health, the Honourable Stephen Robertson

Placements & Health Professions

• Integral component of education for health professionals

• Involve significant time developing discipline-specific skills in a range of settings

• Are a regulatory requirement of many professions

• Labour intensive for university and for health organisations

• Are declining in number as practicing professionals manage increasing caseloads and workforce 'crisis'

• Commitments to increase funded student numbers place further pressure on placement venues

• Employers wanting new skills in graduates - teamwork and interprofessional practice

• Limited placement options in health services for these new skills

• University fieldwork timetables are not aligned across the professions to provide interprofessional experiences in the placement context

Placements & Health Professions

Interprofessional Education

Evolving recognition of IPE and collaborative practice from the World Health Organization (WHO) and The Network: Towards Unity For Health (TUFH).

Recognition of IPE in Australia – politically and academically (2004 Nations Health Workforce Strategic Framework)

Recognition of IPE on a local scale - The University of Queensland and major employers

Importance of incorporating practical IPE experiences for authentic learning.  

“Interprofessional Education occurs when two or more professions learn with, from and about each other to improve collaboration and the quality of care” - The UK Centre for the Advancement of Interprofessional Education (CAIPE, 2002)

Why a HCTC?FACULTY OF HEALTH SCIENCESHealth Care Team Challenge 2007 

Prepare students for a new workplace reality

Patient care would be improved through IPE / teamwork skills

Previous IPE initiatives had not delivered desired outcomes

New IPE initiatives – UQ Faculty Health Sciences PhD Scholarship (IPE)

New IPE initiatives – UQ Faculty Health Sciences T&L Fellowship (IPE)

Re-think the marketing mix for IPE

Incentives for student & staff participation - extra-curricula

Drive and embed cultural change

A vehicle that would be sustainable:  business case

Link IPE champions: academics, practitioners, students, employers

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• Concept adapted from original design (1980s) by the College of Health

Disciplines at the University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada

• International Advisors- Ms Lesley Bainbridge and Dr Christie Newton

• Observation of the UBC Health Care Team Challenge

• Active international collaboration - event, research and development

• Distinct UQ HCTC model - competition

• Identification of contextual issue

• Major event management challenge

• UQ Law School Moot

• UQ Business School Enterprise

2005 Health Care Team Challenge at the University of British Columbia

Objectives 

1. To complement current learning experiences with an IP learning placement

2. To enhance students’ knowledge of roles and value of other health

professions

3. To increase students’ understanding of how IPE contributes to patient care 

4. To enhance student attitudes towards working in IP teams

5. To overcome university structural barriers through an innovative extra-

curricula strategy

6. To contribute to the evidence base for short, extra-curricula IPE learning

activities  

Future VisionEstablish the Health Care Team Challenge

as a premier interprofessional event atlocal, regional, national & international levels.

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Event

The event had 5 external industry

supporters- cash and resources

Audience of approximately 170 comprised

students, academic staff, industry

professionals, community practitioners,

family and friends

High levels of enthusiasm from students

and audience

Support from Hon. Stephen Robertson,

Minister for HealthWinning Team 2 present their

management plan

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Post HCTC Student Participant Evaluation

Research and Development Framework

Data Collection:

• Five focus groups 6 weeks post-event

• Online interviews to three students who were unable to attend

Continued Student Involvement:

• Promotion of the 2008 HCTC

• ANZAME Conference, Canberra

• UQ FHS Showcase of Interprofessional Education

• UQ Placement Showcase

• Cohort of future practitioners who will champion IPE as a service model for

patient care

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Future Development

State-wide

National

International

UQ Teaching and Learning Strategic Large Grant 2008-9 $122K for a Queensland HCTC and for national and international promotion

Carrick Institute suitability

Left to Right: Ms Monica Moran & Dr Rosalie Boyce

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Student Voice on HCTC

• Ms Jessica Page, student, Physiotherapy, SHRS

• Mr Brady Schulz, student, School of Human Movement Studies

• Ms Bridget Palmer, student, Speech Pathology, SHRS

• Ms Michelle Mowat, student, Occupational Therapy, SHRS

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Photographs

Team 3

Team 1

Team 2

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Questions?

ReferencesFACULTY OF HEALTH SCIENCESHealth Care Team Challenge 2007 

CAIPE. (2002). UK centre for the advancement of interprofessional education. CAIPE, Retrieved August 29, 2007 from http://www.caipe.org.uk/index.php?&page=define

World Health Organization (2007). World Health Organization, Retrieved October 26, 2007 from http://www.who.int/about/en/

The Network: Towards Unity For Health (2007). The Network: Towards Unity For Health, Retrieved October 26, 2007 from http://www.the-networktufh.org/home/index.asp

(April, 2004). Nations Health Workforce Strategic Framework, Australian Health Ministers’ Conference 2004.