Faculty of Medicine

The Student Wellness and Counselling Centre provides Interprofessional training to the Faculty of Medicine, including Psychiatry Psychotherapy Training for second-year psychiatry residents and Interprofessional Psychotherapy Training (IPPT) for first-year medicine and psychiatry residents.

IPPT:

Student Wellness and Counselling Centre faculty, along with doctoral residents, facilitate IPPT training for first-year medicine and psychiatry residents across a series of 8-week cycles. The focus is on developing and refining counselling skills in a variety of areas including stages of change, stress management, working with diverse clients, grief, cognitive behavioural therapy, motivational interviewing and solution-focused therapy. Didactic and experiential training are blended with interprofessional and peer supervision of patient interactions and clinical experiences.

Faculty Supervisor:
Beth Whelan, PhD, RPsych

Nursing, Human Kinetics and Recreation (HKR) and Centre for Collaborative Health Professional Education (CCHPE):
The Centre for Collaborative Health Professional Education (CCHPE) develops, implements and evaluates interprofessional education (IPE) activities at Memorial. IPE activities involve learners from various health/social care backgrounds (medicine, nursing, pharmacy, social work, psychology, and others) learning with, from and about each other to provide safer, more effective and efficient health/social care services. For more information: https://www.med.mun.ca/cchpe/home.aspx