Learning and Teaching for Interprofessional Practice (Australia)
L-TIPP (Aus)

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Welcome to the home page of the Learning and Teaching for Interprofessional Practice (Australia) project, L-TIPP (Aus).

WHO ARE WE AND WHAT IS THE PROJECT?
We are a team of university academics and health service practitioners based at the University of Sydney and the University of Technology Sydney. The project is led by Alison Lee, Professor at the Centre for Research in Learning and Change, University of Technology, Sydney, and Jill Thistlethwaite, Associate Professor of medical education at the University of Sydney and a member of CIPHER, the Centre for Innovation in Professional Health Education and Research. We have also established an advisory Reference Group with eleven national and four inteernational consultants with expertise in the field.

We have received funding from the Carrick Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education Ltd to: significantly increase the capacity of the Australian higher education sector to graduate health professionals who have acquired well developed interprofessional learning (IPL) and interprofessional practice (IPP) capabilities.

To register your interest, to request further information, or to discuss any aspect of the project, please contact Cheryl Bell, the LTIPP (Aus) Project manager on (02) 9514 4476 or 0421 196 900; or email cheryl.bell@uts.edu.au; or visit our website here at www.education.uts.edu.au/research2/ltipp.html

WHAT ARE WE PLANNING TO DO?
We have five project goals:

1. To establish an Australian development and research agenda for interprofessional education (IPE) and learning (IPL).
   This agenda will be developed as a result of extensive consultation with and input from all relevant Australian higher education and health sector organizations and practitioners.
2. To develop a national approach to the further development of the interprofessional education curriculum for health professional students within the higher education sector. We are particularly interested in the idea of interprofessional practice graduate attributes.
3. To describe what’s happening in terms of health professional IPE across the Australian higher education sector. We are interested in identify existing and emerging activity, future plans, key issues and questions.
4. To contribute to the further development of a community or network of academics, health practitioners, health service managers, policy analysts – in fact, anyone - who has an interest in the further development of IPE in the Australian and New Zealand higher education and health service contexts. (Whilst the project is funded to focus primarily on the Australian context, we have already engaged with New Zealand stakeholders who are interested in developing an Australian/New Zealand perspective.)
5. To develop a web based information exchange and communication clearing house for those interested in the development of interprofessional education, learning and practice within the Australian and New Zealand contexts. The recently formed Australasian Interprofessional Practice and Education Network (AIPPEN) will take the lead in this development.

The initial life of the project is 18 months – October 2007 to March/April 2009

WHAT’S OUR APPROACH?
Whilst we have established a project structure and process – a management team, project manager and national/international reference group and implementation plan – every aspect of our work will involve extensive stakeholder engagement and participation. We aim to facilitate a national and inclusive discussion.

HOW WILL THE PROJECT ASSIST THE DEVELOPMENT OF AUSTRALIAN IPE?
The project, through its consultative process and its outputs, will develop:

• Descriptions of Australian IPE activity
• A national development and research agenda
• Discussion papers on key issues, challenges, resources, and,
• A web based information exchange/communication clearing house
• Stronger linkages between individuals, groups and institutions interested in the development of IPE/IPL/IPP

HOW DO I OBTAIN MORE INFORMATION AND/OR GET INVOLVED?
There are many ways that you can become involved. For instance you may be interested to:

• Receive regular updates and newsletters about the progress of the project
• Provide comments to assist with the development of IPE key issues discussion papers
• Attend focus groups, workshops and a conference addressing A & NZ IPE issues
• Become a member of one of our IPE key issue networks or working groups.

PROJECT TEAM (presented in alphabetical listing)

• Dr Roger Dunston – Senior Research Fellow, Faculty of Education, University of Technology Sydney

• Emeritus Professor Adrian Lee – prior to retirement he was Pro Vice Chancellor, Education and Quality Improvement, University of New South Wales

• Professor Alison Lee – Director of the Centre for Research in Learning and Change, Faculty of Education, University of Technology Sydney

• Dr Lynda Matthews – Associate Dean, Clinical Education, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Sydney

• Ms Gillian Nisbet – Senior Lecturer and Project Leader for the University of Sydney Interprofessional Learning Project

• Dr Rosalie Pockett – Senior Lecturer, Social Work and Policy Studies Program, University of Sydney

• Professor Diana Slade – Professor of Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Education. Departments.

• Associate Professor Jill Thistlethwaite – Associate Professor of Medical Education University of Sydney

• Professor Jill White – Dean, Faculty of Nursing & Midwifery, University of Sydney.

REFERENCE GROUP MEMBERS

• Hugh Barr (UK) is Emeritus Professor of Interprofessional Education and Honorary Fellow at the University of Westminster and holds visiting chairs in the same field at King’s College London, St George’s University of London with Kingston University, and the University of Greenwich.

• Pat Brodie (NSW) is Professor of Midwifery Practice Development and Research
Sydney South West Area Health Service and the University of Technology, Sydney. Current National President of the Australian College of Midwives.

• Associate Professor Janice Chesters (Victoria) is Deputy Director at the Monash University Department of Rural and Indigenous Health in Moe Victoria and is a health sociologist by training.

• Michael Field (NSW) is Professor of Medicine at the University of Sydney, and Associate Dean of the Northern Clinical School in the Faculty of Medicine. He is currently Chair of the Medical School Accreditation Committee of the Australian Medical Council.

• Dawn Forman (UK) is the Executive Dean, Faculty of Health and Wellbeing at Sheffield Hallam University.

• Margo Gill (Queensland/NSW) has a professional background in Allied health (medical imaging technology and ultrasound) and academia as a senior academic at both Queensland University of Technology (Brisbane 1989-2002) and the University of Sydney (2004-2005).

• Professor Ian Goulter (NSW) is currently Vice-Chancellor at Charles Sturt University. He is currently President of the World Association for Co-operative Education (WACE), an international organisation committed to the international promotion of World Integrated Learning in all its forms.

• Professor Dame Jill MacLeod-Clark (UK) is Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Medicine Health Life Sciences at the University of Southampton. Jill is spearheading the development of the interprofessional learning program at the university.

• Associate Professor Ieva Stupens (South Australia) is Dean of Teaching and Learning, Division of Health Sciences, University of South Australia. She has led a Carrick funded project “Quality Indicators for Best Practice Approaches to Experiential Placements in Pharmacy Programs” and is team member of a Carrick leadership project "Using TMS to identify and build leadership for quality learning in clinical health care teams.”

• Rick McLean (ACT) has been Principal Medical Advisor in Medical Education and Workforce with the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing in Canberra since February 2006. 

• Karen Murphy (ACT) is the Allied Health Advisor for ACT Health, the largest provider of public health services within the Australian Capital Territory (ACT).

• Professor Lars Owe Dahlgren (Sweden), Linköpings University, Sweden.

• David Rhodes (NSW) is the Director, Allied Health Services in the Hunter New England Area Health Service. 

• Adjunct Professor Debra Thoms (NSW) is the Chief Nursing Officer, NSW Health. Debra is also an Adjunct Professor at the University of Technology Sydney.

• Dr Simon Towler (Western Australia) is Executive Director, Health Policy and Clinical Reform, Western Australia Health. In May 2005, Dr Towler was also appointed Chief Medical Officer.

(Authorised: Alison Lee/Jill Thistlethwaite, 9 March 08)