title: An inter-institutional collaboration: transforming education through interprofessional simulations.
abstract: An inter-institutional partnership of four post-secondary institutions and a health provider formed a learning community with the goal of developing, implementing and evaluating interprofessional learning experiences in simulation-based environments. The organization, education and educational research activities of the learning community align with the institutional and instructional reforms recommended by the Lancet Commission on Health Professional Education for the 21st century. This article provides an overview of the inter-institutional collaboration, including the interprofessional simulation learning experiences, instructor development activities and preliminary results from the evaluation.
authors.affiliation: University of Alberta, Health Sciences Council, Alberta, Canada. sharla.king@ualberta.ca
authors.forename: Sharla
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: King
authors.forename: Jane
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Drummond
authors.forename: Ellen
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Hughes
authors.forename: Sharon
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bookhalter
authors.forename: Dan
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Huffman
authors.forename: Dawn
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Ansell
mesh_terms: D000416:Alberta; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D003479:Curriculum; D006281:Health Occupations / Q000193:education; D006801:Humans; D007373:Interinstitutional Relations; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D019982:Organizational Case Studies; D016544:Patient Simulation; D015397:Program Evaluation; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods*; D014495:Universities