00:00 Podcast Intro

00:53 There seems to be a lot of buzz around the need for interprofessional education and interprofessional collaboration. Can you kind of take us through these concepts? How are they the same, or how are they different?

02:37 What’s the why here? Why should health care institutions, us as individuals, why should we prioritize this interprofessional education or collaboration in practice?

05:34 I imagine there are a lot of people listening who have meetings…for example we have medical technologists that are involved in a meeting and pathology residents, pathologists, and so you have people together. Does that mean that intercollaboration is happening, or happening well? Is there some way to understand that? 

11:03 What do you think that the challenges are that get in the way of developing this skill of interprofessional collaboration?

16:17 Critical reflection

19:20 What has surprised you most about interprofessional collaboration?

20:42 Underscoring the importance of laboratorians and clinicians having a strong collaboration during the COVID pandemic

21:44 Outro

Resources:

• WHO IPE framework: https://www.who.int/hrh/resources/framework_action/en/  
• University of Toronto Center for IPE: https://ipe.utoronto.ca/  
• D’Amour, D. & Oandasan, I. (2005). Interprofessionality as the field of interprofessional practice and interprofessional education: An emerging concept. Journal of Interprofessional Care , 19 (Suppl 1): 8-20.