P-CITE Background
The Patient-Centred Interprofessional Team Experiences (P-CITE) project was launched in June 2005, facilitated by a successful project application to Health Canada for interprofessional education funding. P-CITE had the goal of improving the health of communities, families and individuals across the province of Saskatchewan through services delivered by effective interprofessional health care teams.
The long-term goal was to effect a systemic, structural change in health service delivery and health professional education through collaborative practice, patient-centred care and interprofessional education.
Development and delivery of interprofessional education experiences for health science and human services students in Saskatchewan has been facilitated through funding provided by the IECPCP initiative, along with the growing support for IPE. The funding was used to support the development of educational modules, tools, and instruments which can be, and are being, integrated into programs with minimal additional costs and shared amongst educators across programs and institutions. As well, many faculty and health professionals benefited from conferences and workshops addressing aspects of design, implementation and evaluation of interprofessional educational experiences.
This page provides further details of several characteristics of P-CITE between 2005 and 2008.
P-CITE focused on the interprofessional education of health science students prior to qualification (pre-entry to practice). Since June 2005, P-CITE has supported the delivery of 4145 classroom, 1421 Problem-Based Learning and 569 clinical innovative interprofessional education experiences for students in Saskatchewan. Each of the experiences was linked to one or more of the following IPE themes: Child and Youth Mental Health, Chronic Disease in Middle-Aged Adults, Elders in Transition from Acute to Community Care and Health in Aboriginal Communities.
Overall, a diverse array of over 40 P-CITE funded projects achieved significant student outcomes.
P-CITE Organizational Characteristics
P-CITE involved a large number of volunteers and staff members from a diverse range of organizations who collaboratively and successful planned, implemented, and evaluated P-CITE funded IPE experiences. The P-CITE Archives contain information about the organizational structure and about the various faculty committees created during the P-CITE era.
As the P-CITE Final Report points out:"... through various elements of our program evaluation, we have learned that the P-CITE program has been the main catalyst in Saskatchewan for interprofessional education, especially for students and faculty. It has strengthened the linkages between educational institutions and health regions, creating opportunities for increased clinical education experiences. This has resulted in increased leadership and support for interprofessional education from health regions, community-based organizations, professions and education institutions. There is a sense of an emerging cultural shift towards interprofessional education. Students, educators, practitioners, health care providers and external stakeholders have indicated that they have an increased awareness of the benefits of using interprofessional teams. There have been numerous presentations, workshops and conferences, both in and beyond Saskatchewan, regarding interprofessional education projects occurring in the province. Over three hundred educators, practitioners and community partners have been involved in workshops designed to increase awareness and understanding related to collaborative practice as well as develop skills around interprofessional education.
P-CITE has built awareness and support for interprofessional education in Saskatchewan by funding projects in institutions and communities across the province. By partnering with community-based organizations P-CITE was able to provide unique experiential and community-service learning experiences for many students. By collaborating across programs, other P-CITE projects were able to bring large multi-disciplinary groups of students together for common classroom and problem-based learning experiences. P-CITE funded projects actively engaged interprofessional groups and teams of students in addressing common clients, issues or problems to facilitate learning from and about one another. Opportunities to experience effective team-based practice enhance student satisfaction and commitment to interprofessional collaborative practice."
The purpose of a P-CITE Dissemination Strategy is to:
The P-CITE Dissemination Plan identifies several other mechanisms for promoting IPE.
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