Overview
In health care, patients often work with multiple healthcare professions and providers. Patients are often expected to communicate between healthcare providers, the couriers of healthcare information, or make sense of information given by multiple providers. Interprofessional collaboration can better enable good engagement and health literacy by facilitating unified, consistent information that focuses on the patients’ needs and knowledge. This workshop will look at health literacy and interprofessional collaboration together, providing an opportunity for participants to learn skills to foster collaboration across professionals, sectors and health specialties.
Speakers
Farrah Schwartz, MA University Health Network
Tracy Paulenko, BScPT, MSc University Health Network
Handouts
Inter-professional lens
Interprofessional Communication
Video