Unmet legal needs contribute to housing, income, and food insecurity, along with other conditions that harm health and drive health inequity. Addressing health injustice requires new tools for the next generations of lawyers, doctors, and other healthcare professionals. An interprofessional group of co-authors argue that law and medical schools and other university partners should develop and cultivate Academic Medical-Legal Partnerships (A-MLPs), which are uniquely positioned to leverage service, education, and research resources, to advance health justice.

Leadership is an essential competency for clinicians; however, these skills are not a standard part of health professionals’ education and training. Access to resources (time, money) is frequently cited as a barrier for clinicians to participate in leadership development programs. We aimed to tackle this barrier within postgraduate health professions education and training through establishing an online e-Leadership Academy. The e-Leadership Academy was developed as a community–academic partnership between Clinical Directors Network, Inc. (CDN) and the Harvard Medical School Center for Primary Care to train clinicians and healthcare staff in the fundamental concepts and skills for leading within a clinical practice. For this article, the primary outcome analysis examined participants’ responses to both formative and summative evaluations that took place throughout and at the end of the course. Results were used to assess course quality, participant satisfaction, participant engagement, and provide recommendations about future course offerings for a similar audience. The authors propose that future training programs could measure the changes in team behavior and clinical outcomes using expanded evaluations. Proposed plans for expansion of the e-Leadership Academy include developing additional modules, virtual coaching and mentoring, and the potential integration of an in-person component.

Introduction: Les erreurs médicales sont causées par des failles de système plutôt qu'un seul individu. Dans ce contexte, de multiples designs pédagogiques de formation interprofessionnelle (FIP) ont été proposés pour développer une meilleure collaboration interprofessionnelle. L'une des initiatives pédagogiques proposées en médecine de désastre est la simulation de table (TTX). La TTX consiste à simuler une situation de code orange dans un environnement informel où les participants doivent discuter de la suite logique des actions à prendre. Le protocole d'arrêt cardiaque intra-hospitalier chez le nourrisson de moins de 30 jours (code rose) ayant été mis à jour au Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CHUM), cela a généré un besoin de FIP au sein des équipes. Ainsi, nous avons développé une FIP innovante en utilisant la TTX pour enseigner un nouveau protocole de code rose. L'objectif primaire de la présente étude est d'évaluer la perception des apprenants à propos de cette FIP. Methods: La présente étude rétrospective de cohorte s'est déroulée en mars 2019 au centre de simulation du Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal. Un groupe interprofessionnel (médecins, infirmières, inhalothérapeutes, préposés aux bénéficiaires, etc.) a été recruté. Un sondage de satisfaction des participants leur a été remis immédiatement après la TTX. Des statistiques descriptives (n, %) ont été réalisées. Les commentaires recueillis lors du débreffage ont permis de nuancer les résultats et d'apporter des changements à la nouvelle procédure de code rose. Results: Un total de 13 participants ont participé à la TTX, dont 10 ont répondu au sondage (10/13 : 77%). 3 observateurs ont participé à la TTX et ont tous répondu à certaines questions du sondage (3/3 : 100%). Suite à la TTX, 80% (n = 8) des participants ont eu l'impression de mieux comprendre leur propre rôle et 90% (n = 9) des participants ont eu l'impression de mieux comprendre le rôle des autres professionnels. Tous (100%, n = 13) ont apprécié la TTX et ont affirmé qu'il était probable ou très probable qu'ils participent à nouveau à une telle activité de FIP s'ils y étaient invités et qu'ils recommanderaient à un collègue d'y participer. Conclusion: Il est possible de réaliser une TTX pour une autre procédure d'urgence que le code orange, c'est-à-dire pour le code rose et cela est apprécié des participants. Ces derniers se sont sentis plus confiants dans leur rôle et dans leur connaissance du rôle des autres professionnels.

Introduction: Mass Gathering Medicine (MGM) is a growing field within emergency medicine (EM) and providing care at electronic dance music events (EDMEs) is an increasingly popular activity with MGM groups. Often, health care students are allowed to participate. However, there is a lack of documented curricula to train junior learners in providing medical care at these events. To address this, we developed and initiated an interprofessional, simulation-based workshop for University of Alberta health care students interested in working at EDMEs. Methods: We used Kerns six-step approach to develop the workshops. Our MGM Interest Group identified a need for educational sessions in toxicology case management at EDMEs. A subsequent literature review revealed a paucity of pre-existing curricula on this topic for MGM learners. We created goals and objectives for the workshops, reflecting the knowledge, skills and attitudinal competencies required to provide appropriate medical care at these events. The workshops were implemented and evaluated in November 2016 and 2017. Results: A total of 44 medical and nursing students attended the workshops. An EM resident and staff physician, both with prior experience working at EDMEs, led each session. Each workshop began with a short didactic lecture followed by two hours of case-based training using two standardized patients and a high fidelity simulator. Topics were chosen based on previously published articles describing medical cases seen at EDMEs. The simulation replicated the actual space, noise and equipment available at the medical tents at these events. Two interprofessional learner groups took turns managing a different set of 3 patients: Set 1-opioid overdose (OD), alcohol/vomiting, sympathomimetic OD; Set 2-opioid OD not responsive to naloxone, anticholinergic/seizure, OD with hyperthermia. Initial assessment, medical management and team communication skills were emphasized. Debriefing was provided to learners immediately after each set of cases. After each workshop, the learners completed evaluation forms utilizing both Likert scale and open-ended responses. Overall, students were extremely complimentary about the workshop structure, content and communication skills teaching. They were especially appreciative of the opportunity to participate in their first interprofessional team experience. Conclusion: To address local needs, a well-received simulation-based workshop was created to train students in toxicology case management at EDMEs. Future work will include using this workshop in a just-in-time fashion before upcoming EDMEs and documenting students actual use of skills taught (Kirkpatrick level 3). The workshop will also be further modified to implement more detailed interprofessional objectives and can provide a venue for EM residents to practice teaching interprofessional education competencies as part of their CanMEDS Scholar role.

Introduction / Innovation Concept: During Emergency Department (ED) resuscitation of critically ill patients, effective teamwork and communication among various healthcare professionals is essential to ensure favorable patient outcomes and to minimize threats to patient safety. However, numerous individual and system factors create barriers to effective team functioning. Simulation center- based training has been used to improve Crisis Resource Management skills among physician and nursing trainees, but in-situ simulation is a relatively new concept in adult Emergency Medicine in North America. Methods: To enhance patient care and team effectiveness, an ED nursing and physician group was created to develop and implement a novel interprofessional in-situ simulation program in two Canadian, academic tertiary-care emergency departments. Departmental approval and financial support was obtained and sessions commenced in January 2015. Curriculum, Tool, or Material: Monthly high-fidelity simulation sessions are held in the ED resuscitation rooms at both campuses of our hospital. Each session is facilitated and debriefed by simulation-trained Emergency Medicine faculty and senior residents, a nurse educator and a research assistant. Technical support is provided by our simulation center staff. Participants are recruited from the physicians, residents, nurses, respiratory therapists and other support staff working in the ED. To minimize the impact on patient care, two additional nurses are scheduled to cover nursing assignments on “sim days”. Simulations are limited to fifteen minutes, followed by a twenty minute debriefing. Conclusion: We have successfully developed and implemented an interprofessional in-situ simulation program in our ED. Participant feedback has been overwhelmingly positive. Lack of financial support, reluctance of staff to participate, and overwhelmed resources are some of the challenges to running a program like this in a busy ED environment. However, there are clear benefits: empowering team members, culture change, identification of latent safety threats, and a perception of improved teamwork and communication.

Although there is an increasing emphasis on interprofessional collaboration for safer health care systems, there remains a paucity of opportunities for postgraduate trainees to engage in formal interprofessional education (IPE). Current opportunities for interprofessional learning, such as simulation sessions, typically do not provide true IPE because they often utilize actors or confederates as support staff, making residents the only stakeholders in the education experience.

Here, we describe a flexible educational module designed to provide genuine IPE for physicians, nurses, and respiratory therapists. We outline how simulation, feedback, and group discussions can be used to teach interprofessional team communication, collaboration, and crew resource management skills—while, at the same time, also teaching a highly relevant medical topic (sepsis management) and thus resulting in learner engagement and motivation.

This article details reflections of an interdisciplinary team of educators working with groups of health sciences students in preparing them for working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. The first-year common core unit discussed here is one attempt to equip future health practitioners with skills and knowledges to work adequately in this complex area. Processes of engagement, central to critical reflection and learning that is iterative and cyclical, are emphasised here using the authors’/educators’ experiences of teaching in the unit. Within this first-year unit, the content delivered — its underlying processes and principles, and assessment design using reflective journalling — coalesces into what is a valued unit of study in preparing students for practising in this field. While the content of the unit is political, provocative and powerful, which presents challenges for students and teaching staff alike, we maintain here that processes of critical reflection and action learning are central to its success and significantly contribute to enhancing students’ learning and to changing students’ perspectives.

This paper explores some of the characteristics associated with learning about the care and management of people with cancer in an interprofessional setting. Most cancer patients have contact with a variety of health care professionals on their cancer journey. This journey is explored for a woman with breast cancer who experiences, reports and receives advice for the chronic fatigue that many such patients have during and after treatments. Recent literature, especially that informed by patients’ viewpoints, indicates that some patients perceive their care as fragmented and can be given conflicting advice from different professionals within the team. This paper demonstrates that working in an interprofessional way is full of complexities for the practitioners involved and argues for interprofessional education as a way towards more effective team work when two or more health care professionals are members of that team.

The paper discusses theoretical aspects of interprofessional education, with a focus on knowledge development through shared learning and how this may be achieved for students studying cancer care. Barriers to the effective development of interprofessional knowledge are elaborated upon.