Interprofessional Education - Live Webinar

In the United States, therapy professionals are mostly educated in silos.

So it’s no wonder that when we get into the real world, we often struggle with interprofessional collaboration.

The answer is simple, and medicine, nursing, and pharmacy have already embraced it: interprofessional education.

But if this is the way forward, why has therapy been slow to adopt it? Will we lose our distinct value if we learn alongside other professions? Does it actually work, and if so, how do we measure that? And what does it look like in practice?

To answer these questions and more, I’m excited to welcome to the podcast Michael Sy, an OT researcher who writes and studies on exactly this topic.

We hope this conversation inspires you to think about how you collaborate across professions, and to see that it can begin with learning together.

1. You will be able to identify frameworks for delivering interprofessional education and how they could apply in a therapy setting.

2. You will be able to recognize ways to measure whether interprofessional education is working, at both the learner level and the team or practice level.

3. You will be able to recognize how therapy practitioners can contribute their discipline’s distinct perspective within an interprofessional team.

Intro (5 minutes)

Discussion (40 minutes)

1. What drew you to OT- and also to researching interprofessional education?

2. You’ve done multiple studies about interprofessional education- what are the most important things you’ve learned through the process?

3. What is interprofessional education & why is it helpful?

4. Why is interprofessional education so important to consider at this moment in time?

5. What are frameworks for delivering interprofessional education?

6. You write about sociomateriality, what is this concept- and how can it be helpful for clinicians to understand?

7. How do we know if interprofessional education is working?

8. What’s an example of how interprofessional can work in a complex care environment.

9. What do you hope for in the future interprofessional education & collaboration?

10. What’s the last thought you want to leave us on?

Live Q&A (5-10 min)

Closing (5 min)

• Sociomaterial perspective as applied in interprofessional education and collaborative practice: a scoping review

• Preliminary empirical validation of the framework for evaluation of interprofessional education and collaboration: A mixed-methods multi-level model

• Filipino therapists’ experiences and attitudes of interprofessional education and collaboration: A cross-sectional survey

• Effects of interprofessional education on readiness for interprofessional learning in prelicensure rehabilitation science students: a systematic review

• Baseline assessment on the quality of interprofessional collaboration among Filipino Mental Health Professionals

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Speaker interests: Michael Sy is an author of three of the research articles cited in this course: Sociomaterial perspective as applied in interprofessional education and collaborative practice: a scoping review; Preliminary empirical validation of the framework for evaluation of interprofessional education and collaboration; and Filipino therapists’ experiences and attitudes of interprofessional education and collaboration. He has no financial interest in this topic to disclose.

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