Course Overview

IHHS 101 consists of a variety of learning activities that apply to a wide range of interprofessional situations.  In the introductory module, Person-Centred Maternity Care, learners from different professions will explore how a culture of dialogue and choice facilitates healthy outcomes across birth settings. The modules that follow address core topics in Communication and Teamwork, as well as the more advanced topic of Interprofessional Conflict Transformation. Shared Decision Making and Collaborative Leadership are concepts threaded throughout the course and applied to simulations at the completion of the course.

Learning Goals

Upon completion of all course activities, assignments, and assessments, learners will be able to:

  1. Facilitate partnerships with persons who seek to design and implement their own care plans.

    (Interprofessional Education [IPE] Competency: Person-Centred Care, Shared Decision Making) 

  2. Describe the respective roles of relevant health professions, and use this knowledge appropriately to  achieve patient/client, family and community goals. 

    (IPE Competency: Role Clarification, Team Functioning)

  3. Demonstrate effective communication with other health professionals and patients/clients in a collaborative, respectful, responsive, and responsible manner. 

    (IPE Competency: Communication, Person-Centred Care, Shared Decision Making, Conflict Transformation)

  4. Discuss the principles of teamwork dynamics and group processes that enable effective interprofessional collaboration. 

    (IPE Competency: Team Functioning)

  5. Describe how the patient/client, family, and community are affected by inequitable access to options for care, including choice of birth place, and/or availability of providers and facilities. 

    (IPE Competency: Person-Centered Care, Role Clarification)

  6. Demonstrate positive, constructive techniques and skills to address disagreements or divergence in opinion among providers and patients as they arise during health care decision making. 

    (IPE Competency: Communication, Conflict Transformation)

  7. Model best practices for communication and teamwork that support collaborating with patients/clients, families, and colleagues to make decisions, while accepting individual accountability for their own actions and professional responsibilities.  (IPE Competency: Collaborative Leadership)