Responding to health care complexity: suggestions for integrated and interprofessional workplace learning

Abstract

This report highlights complexity in health care and the relevance of integrated and interprofessional care and learning. It is proposed that appropriate workforce training in response to complexity should be contextually relevant and workplace integrated, and should focus on building interprofessional capability for reflective practice and critical thinking. This training should be interprofessional and foster systems thinking. It is suggested that the World Health Organization’s International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) is a useful integrating framework.

• Complexity
• health and social care
• interprofessional education