Health Human Resources Planning in an Interdisciplinary Care Environment: To Dream the Impossible Dream?
Cathy Fooks
" There has been a lot of rhetoric in the past about the need for integrated planning. This rhetoric must now gradually give way to breathing life into the concept by reforming the ways in which governments interact with each other and with the providers of health and social services.
" Interprofessional education has been defined as 'occasions when two or more professions learn from and about each other to improve collaboration and the quality of care' (CAIPE 1997). Much that has been written about interprofessional education (IPE) and the interprofessional team has concentrated on two or at most three professions, primarily medicine, nursing and pharmacy. Educational programs described in the literature tend to focus on activities involving students, practitioners or both. Very little has been written about the structural changes that need to be made within universities, colleges and the healthcare industry such that IPE becomes a joint responsibility across a number of jurisdictions that may then effectively influence institutional practice."
A statement made, perhaps, in any one of the recent reviews of Canadian healthcare? No. These comments were made by Maureen Law, then Associate Deputy Minister of Health and Welfare, Government of Canada, at a conference on Canada's healthcare system in 1984.
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