Collaboration Insights
Collaboration Insights: A Health Professions Blog for Effective Collaboration is a blog created for students, faculty, and alumni by interprofessional student interns. It is a hub for information on interprofessional education and collaboration: related skill-building, research, professional spotlights, and podcasts.
Competence Equals Resilience: Interprofessional Competency as a Strategy for Building Team Resilience
What comes to mind when you hear the word “resilience”? Resiliency is often referenced as an individual quality. However, resilience is a spectrum beyond self care and wellness apps. It can be used to describe a collective group.
Learning Over Blaming: A Better Approach to Accountability in a Healthcare Setting
How can teams hold each other accountable when mistakes are made? Prioritizing a safe environment that balances blame with faultlessness can foster teams who share responsibility of individual and organizational mistakes. You can start by asking WHAT is responsible, not WHO is responsible.
From Competence to Connection: Cultivating Cultural Humility in Interprofessional Teams
Have you ever finished a patient encounter feeling like something is missing? Sometimes, a patient may appear hesitant, refuse a recommendation, or approach their health differently than we expect. Pause. This is where cultural humility begins.
Addiction, Inequality, and the Systems That Shape Recovery
Addiction is shaped by the environments people live in, the opportunities available to them, and the systems that support or neglect their wellbeing. With an interprofessional approach, care can address not only physical withdrawal, but also mental health, housing insecurity, and family healing.
How Can We Ensure Team Members are Validated and Heard in a Healthcare Setting?
In healthcare, interprofessional teams are composed of many different professionals and support members with different backgrounds and expertise. The work tends to be fast-paced, hierarchical, and emotionally demanding, making communication a central factor to success.
Being Adaptable Can Save Lives
Promoting adaptable approaches requires intentional effort. Adaptability is a vital skill in interprofessional settings. It strengthens collaboration, enhances learning, and helps teams respond effectively to real-world challenges. It could also save a life.
Breaking Bread, Building Trust: Culture and Collaboration in Healthcare
Minnesota’s healthcare landscape is shaped by a tapestry of languages, histories, and cultures, from the Somali and Hmong communities of the Twin Cities to the Native nations, Latino, and immigrant families across the state. Yet, for many patients, the “language of medicine” often feels foreign...
Aligning Care With Values: The Core Practices of Person-Centered Care
Have you ever walked out of your health appointment and wished the healthcare team saw you and not just your symptoms? Person-centered care (PCC) is an evidence-based practice that involves patients as active partners in their own care.
Serving Together: Lessons in Team Leadership from the Volleyball Court to the Clinic
Just as a captain unites a team of different players toward a shared goal, a healthcare leader must bring together diverse professionals to deliver optimal patient care. Leadership, in both contexts, is not about dominance—it’s about coordination, connection, and cultivating a culture of shared success.
Why Icebreakers Fall Flat (and How to Build Belonging Instead)
Have you ever joined a new team, shared your favorite ice cream flavor, and still walked away feeling like no one really knew you? Becoming part of a new team isn’t just about learning names...