The document discusses developing a digital education platform to support Interprofessional Education (IPE) for clinicians in primary health care. IPE brings different professions together to improve collaboration and quality of care. Research shows collaborative practice can decrease complications and errors while increasing patient satisfaction. The project will review current IPE models, interview clinicians, develop online modules and a platform, pilot the program, and evaluate it with clinicians.

1. Online Interprofessional Education for
Clinicians in Primary Care Services
Caoimhe Bennis
ESR 7
This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the
Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No 676201
AIM:
To develop a digital education platform to support Interprofessional Education (IPE) for clinicians engaged in the
delivery of primary health care services focused on chronic disease prevention and healthy lifestyle promotion.
What is IPE?
"Interprofessional Education occurs when two or more professions learn
with, from and about each other to improve collaboration and the
quality of care“
IPE brings education away from lecture based learning into a realm of
collaborative, engaged and focused personal and team development.
The resulting increase in collaborative efforts of multidisciplinary teams
(MDT’s) within health systems has been shown to positively affect
patient care. Collaborative practice has been linked to a decrease in-
total patient complications; length of hospital stays; tension and conflict
among caregivers; staff turnover; hospital admissions; clinical error
rates; mortality rates resulting in increased patient satisfaction and
health outcomes.
Accessible CPD which can also provide a useful platform for team communication and
information sharing.
Poor platform or application development gets in the way of the user experience.
Review
Current
State of the
Art
Semi -
Structured
Interviews
Program
Develop-
ment
Pilot
Program
Program
Evaluation
User Centred Design
1. Review of current state of the art for online IPE
2. Structured interviews with the Clinician regarding
IPE / Online Learning
• Learning needs
• Motivators for engagement
• Barriers to engagement
• Vision for online environment
3. Develop modules & online platform based on
steps 1 & 2
4. Pilot Program
5. Clinician Evaluation