In their recent study, Gillian Nisbet, Stewart Dunn and Michelle Lincoln explore the potential for workplace interprofessional learning, specifically the learning that occurs between health professionals, as part of their attendance at their regular interprofessional team meetings. While most interprofessional learning research to date has focused on formal structured education programs, this study adds to… Read More »

Where No Doctor Has Gone Before: Cuba’s Place in the Global Health Landscape Robert Huish  Waterloo, ON, Canada: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2013 156 pages. $31.65 USD ISBN: 978-1-55458-833-6 Robert Huish, Assistant Professor at Dalhousie University, Department of International Development Studies, presents an overview of the Cuban health system, the Cuban medical education system, and… Read More »

Interprofessional education (IPE) in health and human services educational and clinical settings has proliferated internationally. The use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in the facilitation of interprofessional learning is also growing; despite this, reviews of the effectiveness of ICTs in the delivery of pre- and/or post-licensure IPE have been limited. A recent study by… Read More »

To prepare future healthcare professionals to collaborate effectively, many universities have developed interprofessional education programs (IPE). Till date, these programs have been mostly courses or clinical simulation experiences. Few attempts have been made to pursue IPE in healthcare clinical settings. A recent pilot study in four healthcare settings by Isabelle Brault and colleagues addresses interprofessional… Read More »

The benefits of interprofessional care in providing mental health services have been widely recognized, particularly in rural communities where access to health services is limited. There continues to be a need for more continuing interprofessional education in mental health intervention in rural areas. There have been few reports of rural programs in which mental health… Read More »

The assessment of interprofessional competence or capability following interprofessional education (IPE) remains essential if we are to ensure future practitioners who are able to work in teams and collaborate for improved health outcomes. Any IPE curriculum must design and describe its theoretical stance and this also applies to how learning will be assessed.A recent study… Read More »

Methods in Psychological Research (3rd Edition) Annabel Ness Evans & Bryan J. Rooney. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2014 415 pages, $101.95 ISBN 978-1-4522-6104-1 Annabel Evans and Bryan Rooney, both professors at Concordia University College of Alberta, Department of Psychology, present an introduction to the foundational concepts of research methods in psychology.  In this introductory textbook,… Read More »

Psychological Testing: Principles, Applications and Issues, 8th Edition. Robert M. Kaplan & Dennis P. Saccuzzo Wadsworth: Belmont, California, 2013, 639 pp, $189.95 ISBN-10: 1-133-49201-0 / ISBN-13: 978-1-133-49201-6 Robert M. Kaplan, Ph.D., Associate Director for Behavioral and Social Sciences at the National Institutes of Health, and Dennis P. Saccuzzo, Professor Emeritus at San Diego State University… Read More »

Studies on interprofessional practice usually report professionals’ viewpoints and document organizational, procedural and relational factors influencing that practice. Considering the importance of interprofessional patient-centred (IPPC) practice, it seems necessary to describe it in detail in an actual context of care, from the perspective of patients, their families and health-care professionals.  Karine Bilodeau, Sylvie Dubois and… Read More »

There has been an ongoing increase in the publication of evaluation work aimed at measuring the processes and outcomes related to a range of interprofessional education (IPE) activities and initiatives. Systematic reviews of IPE have, however, suggested that while the quality of evaluation studies is improving, there continues to be a number of empirical weaknesses… Read More »