Sylvia
Langlois,
M.Sc. OT Reg. (Ont)
Associate Director, Curriculum and Faculty Relations
University of Toronto and University Health Network
Sylvia Langlois is an Associate Professor, Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy, Temerty Faculty of Medicine and Associate Director, Academics, Centre for Advancing Collaborative Healthcare and Education, University of Toronto. She is also Co-Editor (shared role) of the Journal of Interprofessional Practice and Education. In her Associate Director role she is responsible for the IPE curriculum for over 4500 students from eleven health and social science programs. Her research interests include patient engagement in IPE, virtual teams, and competency development.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
Lightning Talk Description:
Description. Readiness for interprofessional (IP) practice is a key objective of interprofessional education (IPE). Little is known about whether IPE interventions orient towards a range of practice possibilities. In this study, we engaged in a literature review to explore: (1) how IPE interventions relate to different kinds of IP practice and (2) the range of IP implicitly or explicitly assumed by the IPE interventions.
Methods. We searched four databases for publications from 2011-2021 describing IPE interventions at the pre-licensure level. After removing…
Leveraging Lessons Learned to Foster Leadership and Advance Interprofessional Education and Practice
Seminar Description: The COVID-19 pandemic led to unprecedented global disruption in both healthcare practice and education, yet also served as a catalyst for transformation. Implementation and adoption of long overdue changes in healthcare education and practice, including telehealth and virtual learning, were accelerated. The COVID-19 pandemic has placed healthcare at a crossroads of either viewing responses as either a temporary situation that requires short-term solutions, or as a major disruption that presents opportunities for innovation for sustainable development and transformation.…
Seminar Description: Health systems science (HSS) is gaining attention as health and social care systems increase in complexity. The American Medical Association (AMA) has framed HSS as an integral 3rd pillar complementing basic and clinical sciences in medical education to prepare learners for the realities of current practice. Interprofessional team practice is recognized as one of twelve HSS’ core domains, yet the fields of interprofessional education and collaborative practice (IPECP) and HSS have only begun to interact with one another. A recent literature review has shown that while HSS…
Lightning Talk Description: As an up-to-date to the WHO (2010) global IPE environmental scan, this abstract will report on the findings of the 2022 Global IPE Situational Analysis conducted by the InterprofessionalResearch.Global (IPR.Global).
The survey included 17 quantitative questions that were analyzed at the global and regional levels. Three open-text questions were thematically analyzed. In total, 152 institutions from six regions worldwide contributed to this study.
The results demonstrate a global expansion in IPE development and integration beyond the Western countries. At the…