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Volume 29 (3)

Volume 29, Issue 3, Summer 2009line
J Contin Educ Health Prof 2009; 29(3):147
FOUNDATIONS OF CONTINUING EDUCATION

An anatomy of continuing interprofessional education
Barr H

A b s t r a c t

Continuing interprofessional education is the means by which experienced health, social care, and other practitioners learn with, from, and about each other, formally and informally, to improve their collective practice and to cultivate closer collaboration. It applies principles of interprofessional education through media commonly employed in continuing professional education grounded in team-based practice. Among many approaches, it may be enriched by guided or self-directed reading, by open, distance, or e-learning, and during workshops, seminars, conferences, or courses. No one medium is preferable; nor are they mutually exclusive. Each complements the others. Subsequent articles in this issue put flesh on these bones.

Lessons For Practice
  • Continuing uniprofessional education, continuing multiprofessional education, and continuing interprofessional education distinguish between 3 approaches to continuing professional education. The first aims to address profession-specific practice; the second offers shared professional experiences; the third is interactive and aims to improve collaboration.
  • Although these distinctions may be conceptually clear, they may be contested operationally. Multiprofessional and interprofessional continuing education may, for example, be ill-understood if it is assumed that interprofessional objectives can be incorporated into multiprofessional continuing education without modifying structure, content, and learning methods.
  • Interprofessional continuing education differs depending on the learning medium used. These can include practice-based, team-based, distance-based, and electronically based forms of learning.

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