IPE Facilitator Resources

Role of the IPE Facilitator

  • Promote the benefits of IP learning for teamwork and patient care
  • Provide direction and focus towards the learning objectives without making decisions for the group
  • Encourage and reinforce interaction and collaboration
  • Model and reward the skills necessary for good IP teamworking, such as mutual respect and flexibility
  • Provide encouragement and support throughout the learning activity


What Do Facilitators Do?

  • Guide and support learners in interactive, face-to-face learning activities
  • Lead group discussions and provide context from their own practice experiences
  • Assess short learner assignments and reflections and provide feedback
  • Moderate and stimulate online discussions, responding to and commenting on learner posts
  • Participate in curriculum development and revision


Rewards of IPE Facilitation 

  • Gain experience and recieve training in leading educational activities using online interactive tools and environments
  • You can be recognized as a CCHPE faculty associate on our website
  • We will send you a thank you letter documenting all activities and associated hours
  • IPE Facilitation looks great on CVs and teaching dossiers
  • You will build relationships with the next generation of health/social care practitioners
  • You will gain expertise with collaborative care skills that can be applied to your own practice
  • Many facilitators can claim IPE facilitator training as professional development credit hour

For dates and times of Facilitator orientations for the 2022/23 year click here.

Resources for IPE Facilitators

More information about the IPE facilitator commitment can be found in the documents below.

Resource Title

Description

Link 

CCHPE Facilitation Recruitment Brochure 2022/23

This document outlines briefly the role and responsibility of a Facilitator, gives an overview of our IPE skills training series and IPE case-based Modules, as well as the IPE activity dates for the 2020/21 year. (pdf)

Recruitment Brochure

Facilitating Interprofessional Education 

This document provides guidelines for the facilittation of interprofessional education including roles and required skills.  It also outlines the importance of collaborative practice. (Word Doc)

Facilitating-Interprofessional-Education