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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.
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Reflections on Team Conflict and Communication
To more effectively prevent and overcome conflict, it is crucial to first establish trust and a pattern of good communication.
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Collaborating for a More Sustainable Healthcare Workforce: Reflections and Lessons Learned
Collaboration can be complex – it takes time, care, and a mutual desire to work together.
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Navigating Bias in Healthcare
Self-awareness: To solve a problem, one must first be aware of it.
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The Art of Balance: Navigating Role Conflict & Role Ambiguity
Navigating role conflict and role ambiguity is like steering a ship through turbulent waters.
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Collaborative Practice within Communities
“The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.” - Phil Jackson
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Cultural Considerations to Promote Effective Collaboration
We all can always work to incorporate cultural considerations in our practice – this starts with us!
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Engaging Patients as Team Members
As future health professionals, we can play a role in increasing our patients’ engagement as members of their care team.
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Interprofessional Compassion to Promote Psychological Safety within Healthcare
In the face of ever-intensifying complexity of patient care and demands of an interprofessional health infrastructure, a psychologically safe workforce is exactly what we need to work towards.
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Interprofessional Collaborative Leadership
Collaborative Leadership: Working together to improve health outcomes by recognizing all of us – leaders, providers, health professionals, patients, families, and community – as learners and leaders.
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Mental Health Awareness Month: The Importance of Being a Self-Advocate
Self-Advocacy: Prioritizing your mental health needs, protecting your boundaries and wellbeing, and establishing your safety and self-respect.