Welcome to PIPER

Welcome to the Program for Interprofessional Practice, Education and Research (PIPER) at McMaster University's Faculty of Health Sciences.

This site has been designed to help health care students, faculty and visitors learn about the history of Interprofessional education (IPE) at McMaster, our current educational offerings and research, and the future direction of IPE at McMaster.

Please use the links on the left to discover more.

ANNOUNCEMENT

And the Winner is...

Dr. Jenn Salfi

2012 Dr. John Gilbert Interprofessional Education Mentorship Award

National Heatlh Sciences Association

The honor recognizes a mentor in interprofessional eduction for their encouragement, support, insight and enthusiasm. Read the Daily News article here.

McMaster Interprofessional Student Collaborative

Community Health Initiatives with McMaster Education (CHIME) and the Interprofessional Student Council (IPSC) have merged to form the McMaster Interprofessional Student Collaborative (MISC)

Students may join our Facebook group and stay informed about upcoming executive openings and events. Just search "Mcmaster Interprofessional Student Collaborative" and request to join.

We will be recruting executive members soon.

National Health Science Students' Association Conference

The dates of the 8th Annual NaHSSA Conference have been announced. Mark your calendars for March 9th-11th, 2012 in Kitchener, Ontario!

2011 Request for Proposals

Each year, several small projects which provide new, innovative interprofessional education opportunities to Health Sciences students are funded through PIPER. Details regarding the 2011 proposals will be available soon.

2010 recipients:

Bruce Wainman; Interprofessional Education through Caderveric Disection

Beth Murray-Davis; Interprofessional Team Observed Structured Clinical Encounter (TOSCE) for Learners in Maternity Care

Click the more button to read about the successful proposals from previous years.

IPE Day 2012
Learning Together to Work Together: Professionalism and Patient Safety

Friday January 27th, 2012
8:30am - 1:30pm
Hamilton Convention Centre

Keynote Speakers:

Robin Edwards, B.P.E.,LLB
Advisor Professionalism in Clinically Based Education, Faculty of Health Science

Susan Swiggum,
MD, FRCPC
Senior physician risk manager, Canadian Medical Practice Association.

 

Case Scenarios:

Please review the IPE Day scenarios for tomorrows event.

Mandatory Event for:

• Child Life
• Medicine, Class of 2014
• Midwifery, Level I
• Nursing, Level III
• OT, Year 2
• PT, Year 1
• Physician Asst., Level 1
  

Questions?

More details to follow....