The Network: TUFH 2009 Conference in Amman, Jordan

We would like to inform you about the International Conference that The Network: TUFH will organise in Amman, Jordan from October 10 to 15, 2009. The conference theme is Achieving Quality in Health Care: Challenges for Education, Research and Service Delivery. Our conference host is Center for Educational Development, University of Jordan.The conference will be followed by a post-conference excursion to the Faculty of Medicine at Mu'tah University in Karak, Jordan on October 16, 2009.

Deadline for early registration and submission of abstracts/mini-workshop and didactic session proposals is July 1, 2009! More information is available at www.the-networktufh.org/conference. Please do not hesitate to contact us at secretariat@network.unimaas.nl in case you would like to receive more details.

Best regards,

Pauline Vluggen and Yoka Cerfontaine
The Network: TUFH Office

European and Interprofessional Education presence at the Network: TUFH 2009 Conference in Jordan

Dear Colleagues

Its nearly time to submit your abstracts for the Network: TUFH conference “Achieving Quality in Health Care: Challenges for Education, Research and Service Delivery” which will be in Jordan this year. Details of how to submit is available on the website (http://www.the-networktufh.org/conference).
Lets make this year the year when the European presence and the IPE presence is really felt at the conference and get lots of abstracts submitted.

If anyone is interested in running a joint workshop with me I would be very interested in hearing from you.
Do also remember that we are looking for a venue in Europe (particularly Eastern Europe) for future conferences so if anyone knows of an institution which would like to host a conference please do let me know.

Thank you and I look forward to hearing from you and seeing you in Jordan.

Best wishes

Prof. Dawn Forman
Network: TUFH Executive Committee Member for the European Region
Chair Taskforce Interprofessional Education
Sheffield, United Kingdom
Email: dawn.forman@btinternet.com

Group Forum for IPE Discussion

We have established a group forum for IPE discussion via the Australian Learning and Teaching Council Exchange (ALTC Exchange). We invite you, when its convenient, to join the discussion.

* Log in to the ALTC Exchange at http://www.altcexchange.edu.au/ If you are not a member, click on the Login or Join button at the top of the screen and you will receive an email with your password and instructions on how to log in.
* To contribute to the discussion enter the address for the group http://www.altcexchange.edu.au/learning-and-teachinginterprofessional-practice-australia-l-tipp-aus in your browser OR Go to My Exchange-> Scroll down to Learning and Teaching for Interprofessional Practice, L-TIPP, Aus. This is for Public use by anyone who wishes to continue the discussion on IPE

Forum on Interprofessional Education

Dear Colleagues,

At Linkoping University Faculty of health sciences, Sweden we have been working with interprofessional learning for some time. I think that perhaps this forum could be a way for us all to keep in touch with what's going on in Europe as far as IPL is concerned in Eurpoe. You can read mor about the linköping experience on our homepage:
http://www.hu.liu.se/pedagogisktcentrum/ipl/programintegration?l=en

Kicki Persson
Faculty of Health Sciences
Centre for Educational development and Research

2008 Report from the IPE Taskforce and notes Mini-workshop at 2008 Network: TUFH Conference

Dear Colleagues,

The 2008 Report of the IPE Taskforce is now available at: https://www.the-networktufh.org/about_us/taskforceitemdetail.asp?id=30&tt=Activities&t=Taskforces

At above mentioned website you can also find the notes from the flip charts of the combined IPE and elderly taskforce workshop at the Network: TUFH 2008 Conference in Bogotá, Colombia. Perspectives from different countries were discussed and in addition to the action points noted at the end of the flip chart it was agreed that as chair I would try to facilitate support for students who wanted to take forward IPE projects during the year with a view to them presenting at next year conference.

Best regards,
Prof. Dawn Forman
IPE Taskforce Chair

Collaborating Across Borders II - Call for Abstracts

Collaborating Across Borders II (CAB II) is the second Canada-United States joint conference focusing on an exploration of common issues around interprofessional education and practice. CAB II will facilitate a discussion of interprofessional education, practice and policy in an international context. It will feature best practices, provide evidence that supports efforts, showcase outcomes, describe lessons learned, and provide a venue for scholarly dialogue and productive networking.

The conference theme, Collaborating Across Borders II:Building Bridges Between Interprofessional Education and Practice, reflects the importance of establishing relationships and networks to promote the further development of interprofessional health education and practice. The meeting will be held in Halifax, Canada, May 20-22, 2009 and will involve numerous concurrent sessions and poster presentations over the three days.

Attached please find the Call for Abstracts. We encourage you to submit and/or share the Call with colleagues who may have an interest in submitting. Submission deadline is December 8, 2008. For more information on the conference please visit http://www.cabhalifax2009.dal.ca

Learning and Teaching for Interprofessional Practice (Australia)

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 at www.education.uts.edu.au/research2/ltipp.html

Welcome to the Blog of the Network: TUFH Taskforce Interprofessional Education!

Dear Colleagues,

Welcome to the new Weblogs of the Network: TUFH Taskforces!

Weblogs (also known as "blogs") are easy-to-use websites, where anyone can quickly post thoughts and information, interact with others, and more. With these new weblogs we encourage Network: TUFH members and others to share news and interesting materials or to post comments in reaction to what others have written. A weblog can also provide links to other, relevant web pages. With this helpful new way of interacting on the internet you can learn from and reach many colleagues across the world.

The Network: TUFH Office and Taskforce members will be posting reports and messages to these weblogs on a regular basis. If you are a member of The Network: TUFH you are invited to also post messages on these blogs. To get clearance to do so, please contact The Network: TUFH office at: secretariat@network.unimaas.nl . Otherwise, everyone is free to add comments in response to these postings without having to sign up first.

We wish you a lot of fun with these new Network: TUFH taskforces’ weblogs!
Best wishes,

Pauline Vluggen and Yoka Cerfontaine
The Network: TUFH Office