Melanie Garrison, MEd

University of Alberta Health Sciences Education and Research Commons

Melanie Garrison is the Interprofessional Practice Manager with the Health Sciences Education and Research Commons (HSERC) at the University of Alberta with a focus on bridging learning between future health care providers, practicing professionals, patients, families and communities to improve quality health outcomes.

Presenting at the Nexus Summit:

Integrating Interprofessional Education into Clinical Settings: A Shift to Developing Collaborative Networks (#1)

Shared understanding of interprofessional collaboration (IPC) skills can bridge education and practice and build collaborative workplace culture (Bainbridge and Regher, 2015). Unfortunately, IPC ‘is not a tradition for many disciplines and organizations in the health system.’ and ‘for many collaboration must be taught and rehearsed’ (Bainbridge and Regher, 2015, pg 52). Although interprofessional education (IPE) has been integrated into accreditation requirements for many health science programs (AIPHE, 2010), the intentional integration into contextually authentic settings is largely…