IPE Annual report 2012 - Health Sciences - Curtin University

5.2 Publications
Barr, H. & Brewer, M. (2012). Interprofessional practice-based education. J. Higgs et al. (Eds.) Practice-Based Education:
Perspectives and Strategies, Sense Publishers.
Marles, K., Lawrence, J., Brewer, M., Saunders, R. & Lake, F. (2012). Interprofessional Education in the Residential Aged Care
Setting. International Journal of Aging in Society, 1(4)
Forman, D. (2012). Community based care and the wider health care team. Thistlethwaite, J. (ed). Values-based Interprofessional
Collaborative Practice: Working Together in Health Care. Cambridge University Press
Brewer, M. & Jones, S. (2013). An interprofessional practice capability framework focusing on safe, high quality client centred
health service. Journal of Allied Health (in press)
Ritchie, C., Brewer, M., Gum, L., Sheehan, D., Burley, M., Saunders-Battersby, S., Evans, S. & Tucker, L. (2013).
Interprofessional Collaborative Practice across Australasia: An Emergent and Effective Community of Practice. Focus on
Health Professional Education: A Multi-disciplinary Journal (in press).
Brewer, M. & Jones, S. (2012). A community engagement model for leadership in collaborative practice initiatives. Forman, D. &
Jones, M. (eds). Leadership development for interprofessional education and collaborative practice, Routledge (in press)
Brewer, M., Tucker, B., Irving, L., Franklin, D. & Chuang, V. (2012). The evolution of Faculty wide interprofessional education
workshops. Forman, D. & Jones, M. (eds). Leadership development for interprofessional education and collaborative practice,
Routledge (in press)
5.3 Research in Teaching and Learning Program
Ten research programs were developed in the Faculty, the tenth being the Research in Teaching and Learning Program. This
program was most appropriate for the work that was being undertaken within interprofessional education and therefore was
popular with people undertaking research in that area. In its first year of activity the group had eight full members and thirty
associate members. A range of development programs were made available to encourage research including gaining ethics
approval and writing an article in a day. The networking provided was appreciated by staff. For example, members reported that
the “speed dating” exercise had facilitated a number of meetings. The Research in Teaching and Learning Program was charged
with publishing ten research articles in the last year. The group exceeded this with 18 articles published and a full program of
presentations at the annual Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute conference.
6. KEY COLLABORATIONS
Several members of the IPE Team were involved in the leadership of two national Office for Learning and Teaching
projects: “Curriculum renewal and interprofessional health education: establishing capabilities, outcomes and standards”,
and “Creating a collaborative practice environment which encourages sustainable interprofessional leadership, education
and practice”. The curriculum project, led by the University of Technology Sydney, involves 11 universities from around
Australia. Funded by the Office for Learning and Teaching, with additional support provided by Health Workforce Australia
and WA Health, this project reviewed interprofessional activity across Australia and developed a curriculum framework for
interprofessional education. In addition to the curriculum review two further projects were taken forward by the same group: (1)
a review of interprofessional activity in Western Australia, and (2) developing a scenario planning day. The pilot planning day was
held on October 25 in Perth. All reports and newsletters can be found on the web site http://www.ipehealth.edu.au/portal/. This
project is due for completion in mid-2013.
The leadership for collaborative practice environments project, conducted in partnership with Charles Sturt University, is
also funded by the Office for Learning and Teaching and Health Workforce Australia. This project is in its early stages and
aims to develop an interprofessional change leadership program for industry partner staff to support the expansion of IPE
opportunities for students The needs analysis survey of staff from the South Metropolitan Health Service has been
completed. A collaboration with the University of Toronto has been established to assist with development of a pilot two day
professional development course to be held April/May, 2013. This project is due for completion in mid-2014.
Other collaborative activities in 2012 included:
Two Curtin staff were involved in the Office for Learning and Teaching project “Work-based assessment of teamwork: an
interprofessional approach”. This project is in its early stages.
The Australian Catholic University requested our “Preparation for Interprofessional Practice” student handbook for adaptation to
their context.
Our Interprofessional Capability Assessment Tool was requested by several organisations including the University of Limerick,
Auckland University of Technology, Metro South Health Queensland, and the University of British Columbia.
The WA Training Centre for Subacute Care requested our Interprofessional Capability Framework for use, with minor additions,
by qualified health professionals.
These and other key resources and visits were requested by Coventry University, the Wound Management Innovation
Cooperative Research Centre, De Montfort University in the UK ,La Trobe Community health Centre, Washington State
University, Broken Hill University Department of Rural Health, Nanyang Polytechnic, Victoria University, Auckland University of
Technology, Ko Awatea Centre for Workforce & Leadership Capability, Brock University Canada, Monash University and the
University of British Columbia.
Advice was provided on the development of the first IPE workshop in Busselton, the Canadian Interprofessional Health
Collaborative competency tool, and the WA Country Health Service’s Clinical Supervisor Support Program.