Theoretical Perspectives on Interprofessional Education, Learning and Collaboration within Practices of Health Care and Social Services

Aim

Knowledge and understandingOn completion of the course, the student will be able to :

• Critically analyse the global discourse in health and social care aiming at promoting interprofessional education and collaboration
• Identify how global policy and recommendations have an impact on local interprofessional practices of health and social care
• Contrast theoretical perspectives on interprofessional learning and collaboration and compare their implications for supervision and learning in different national contexts.

Competence and skillsOn completion of the course, the student will be able to :

• Motivate and apply relevant theories of learning to the design of an empirical study on interprofessional learning and collaboration in practice
• Analyse and reflect on the research evidence on facilitation of interprofessional learning
• Design an interprofessional education activity

Judgement and approachOn completion of the course, the student will be able to :

• Review the empirical research evidence as a knowledge base for communication in interprofessional practices.
• Acknowledge the group dynamics and collaborative processes in interprofessional learning.

Content

The course is designed to allow the students to critically study theory and empirical evidence as a starting point for research in interprofessional collaboration, both in education for professionals in healthcare and social care as well as the professional practice.

The content reflects how policies on different levels interplay, and how interprofessional education and practice are designed and performed in a local context. The course gives an overview over how theory and research methods are applied in different national contexts.