Learning in interprofessional teams: AMEE Guide no 38

Abstract

This guide is for health and social care professionals who teach or guide others’ learning before and after qualification, in formal courses or the workplace. It clarifies the understanding of interprofessional learning and explores the concept of teams and team working. Illustrated by examples from practice, the practicalities of effective interprofessional learning are described, and the underlying concepts of patient-centred care, excellent communication, development of capacity and clarity of roles that underpin this explored.

Notes

Notes

1. This case study originally appeared in Interprofessional learning to improve patient care (2001) Institute of Health & Community Studies, Bournemouth University and is reproduced here with the permission of the authors, Charles Campion-Smith, Eloise Carr, and Peter Wilcock.

2. This draws on the CAIPE definition of interprofessional education and that used by Freeth et al. in 2005. For a discussion of this, see Chapter 1 in Freeth et al. (2005).

Additional information

Notes on contributors

Marilyn Hammick

MARILYN HAMMICK is a Research and Education Consultant in the health, social care and medical sciences. She is a Visiting Professor at Birmingham City University and Anglia Ruskin University, Chair of the UK Centre for the Advancement of Interprofessional Education and Consultant to Best Evidence Medical Education. Her scholarly work focuses on evidence-informed education practice and policy, the translation of theory into practice and policy and the development, delivery and evaluation of interprofessional education. She is a member of the WHO Study Group on interprofessional education and collaborative practice.

Lorna Olckers

LORNA OLCKERS is a lecturer in the School of Public Health and Family Medicine at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. She is the convenor of two first-year multi-professional courses. Her areas of interests include curriculum design, professional development through reflective practice, as well as communication skills, health and human rights and HIV/AIDS education.

Charles Campion-Smith

CHARLES CAMPION-SMITH is a General Practitioner in Dorchester, Dorset. He is also part time Senior Advisor in Primary Care Education and Development at the School of Health and Social Care at Bournemouth University, a Macmillan Primary Care Palliative care GP Advisor and a Board member of the UK Centre for the Advancement of Interprofessional Education. His research interests include health professionals’ education, end of life care and patient involvement. He has published papers on general practitioner education, interprofessional learning and continuous quality improvement in primary care.