Objective 3: Roles of Professionals in the Clinical Setting and Academic Institutions

IPE placements involve the whole CLU team in various roles. All members, including patients, clerical staff, clinical staff and support staff play a role and have responsibilities in interacting with the interprofessional student team.

Key players: The Clinical Site/Learning Unit IPE Coordinator is the main link between the IPE facilitators, preceptors, students, CLU team members and the academic health sciences centres (university/college).

IPE Collaborative Learning Unit Team Members - Roles and Responsibilities

Clinical Learning Unit: Team members - clinical, clerical, support staff, patients

Clinical Learning Unit team members

The whole CLU team provides the setting and foundation for the placement (diagram), while key players are responsible for aspects of organization, implementation and evaluation of the placement.

The CLU/Clinical Team

  • Models IP collaborative practice
  • Each member of the clinical team has a role in interacting with the student team, describing their roles and assisting the IPE process

Clinical Site IPE Placement Coordinator

  • Works with clinicians/preceptors/clinical teams to determine placement opportunities and dates
  • Liaises with academic programs to offer placements and coordinate dates
  • Communicates with the Office for Interprofessional Education and Practice (OIPEP), and the Academic Coordinator of Clinical Education/Fieldwork (ACCE/FC) throughout; from pre-placement planning to post placement evaluation
  • Books rooms for tutorials and arrange for drinks/snacks
  • Identifies IPE facilitators
  • Works with IPE facilitators to design and coordinate tutorials and IPE activities
  • Orients the CLU team to the IPE placement, goals and process; identifies roles of CLU members; responds to their questions
  • Liaises with preceptors to ensure balance between profession specific learning and IPE.
  • Orients students to the CLU and IPE component of the placement
  • Evaluates the IPE component of the placements with input from the IPE Facilitators and CLU members
  • Fosters communication, encourages and integrates feedback from CLU members and students to inform future IPE placement development

IPE Facilitators

For each team of students on placement two IPE facilitators are chosen from different professions. Various healthcare professionals from the CLU may take on this role in different placements, so that the role is rotating and shared, enabling more clinicians to develop IP facilitation skills, build and strengthen relationships with colleagues and gain satisfaction in educating new health professionals in collaborative practice

  • Work collaboratively
  • Feel that IPE is a positive addition to a placement experience
  • Understand the importance of the process of developing IP skills versus content and knowledge of other professions
  • Work with the IPE Coordinator prior to placement to plan tutorials (IPE goals and content/curriculum) and IPE activities for the student team (patient shadowing, shadowing of other healthcare professionals, IP assignment)
  • Work together with co-facilitators to lead tutorials and facilitate student group interaction
  • Work with the IPE Coordinator to prepare resource materials for students (eg. IPE resource binder )
  • Encourage formative feedback throughout the placement (process, reflective journals,
  • Advise on a joint IP project for the student team; attend and give feedback on the project/presentation
  • Participate in evaluation of the IPE component of the placement

Preceptors/Clinical Educators (students’ profession specific clinical supervisors)

  • Support IPE placement goals and processes
  • Provide clinical supervision, education and evaluation as per usual academic requirements within each profession including profession specific competencies
  • Orient students to team member roles and processes
  • Provide content expertise for group tutorials as appropriate
  • Support IPE learning process

Students

  • Demonstrate a willingness and interest in participation in IPE placement
  • Complete the uni-professional requirements of the placement
  • Participate in all IPE tutorials, structured reflective exercises and patient and professional shadowing
  • Keep a reflective journal
  • Represent your own profession to the group
  • Work together with other students on the IP team to produce an inter- professional project, to be presented to the CLU at the conclusion of the placement
  • Participate in evaluation activities related to the IP portion of the placement (pre and post questionnaires; focus group)
  • Provide feedback regarding the IPE placement program

Office for Interprofessional Education and Practice (OIPEP)

http://meds.queensu.ca/oipep/search

  • Provides support to CLUs - develops the IPE program evaluation
  • Prepares CLUs for an IPE placement
  • Facilitates the IPE pre-placement collaborative team processes
  • Works in-conjunction with clinical site coordinators
  • Shares IPE placement expertise - including lessons learned
  • Fosters communication between CLUs

Academic Faculty (Clinical Placement/Fieldwork Course Coordinator)

The academic faculty act as a liaison between the CLU’s and the students assisting with the overall student placement and evaluation process. They have two main roles:

Role with Collaborative Learning Units (CLU’s)

  • Provides placement dates/academic calendar and student information (level in the program and pre-placement coursework) to the CLU
  • Is available throughout the placement to respond to any questions, concerns or issues during the placement that may be IPE or profession specific and related to student orientation, learning and evaluation
  • Communicates with the CLU and preceptor regarding the placement process and evaluation

Role with students

  • Provides information regarding IPE placement objectives and opportunities to students
  • Selects students for IPE placements- may involve developing a screening application process to aid in student selection
  • Is available throughout the placement to respond to any student questions, concerns or issues during the placement that may be IPE or profession specific and related to student orientation, learning and evaluation

Roles adapted from Sinclair et al (2007).

Academic Faculty Program Contacts

Queen’s Nursing

Diane M. Buchanan
buchan@queensu.ca
613-533-6000 ext. 78907

St. Lawrence College Nursing

Rose Bell
Associate Dean, School of Health Sciences
rmbell@slc.on.ca
613-544-5400 ext. 1132

Queen’s Physiotherapy

Randy Booth
Academic Coordinator of Clinical Education
Physical Therapy Program
boothr@queensu.ca

Paula Mooney
Associate ACCE
Physical Therapy Program
mooneyp@queensu.ca

Queen’s Occupational Therapy

Catherine Donnelly
Fieldwork Coordinator
Occupational Therapy Program
donnelyc@queensu.ca
613-533-6385

Mary Lou Boudreau
Associate Fieldwork Coordinator
Occupational Therapy Program
boudreau@queensu.ca

Pharmacy, Kingston General Hospital

http://www.kgh.on.ca/pharmacy/ pharmacy_residency.asp
613-548-6021

Queen’s Pastoral Care

Rev. Robert J. Hunt
Clinical Pastoral Education
huntr@queensu.ca
613-533-2110

Eastern Ontario School of X-Ray Technology

Karen Pearson
Director
613-549-6666 ext. 2287

Queen’s Clinical Psychology

http://psyc.queensu.ca/ psychclinicalprogram/

Queen’s Undergraduate Medicine

Dr. Michelle C. Gibson
Undergraduate Coordinator
gibson@queensu.ca

Office of Interprofessional Education and Practice

Anne O’Riordon
Clinical Education Coordinator
ao3@queensu.ca