How to Build a Competency-based Interprofessional Curriculum

The goal of interprofessional education is development of interprofessional collaborative competence. There have been consistent efforts to identify the competencies or capacities constituting interprofessional collaborative competence. Hosney, Thistlethwaite, El-Wazir, and Gilbert, (2024) examined competency and capacity frameworks within different nations. For example, the Interprofessional Education Collaborative (2023) identified four specific competency domains values and ethics, roles and responsibilities, teams, and teamwork, and interprofessional communication. The Canadian Interprofessional Health Collaborative Competency Framework for Advancing Collaboration (2024), presents six domains: relationship-focused care/services, team communication, role clarification and negotiation, team functioning, team differences/disagreements processing, and collaborative leadership. Explicitly addressing the intended competencies and learning outcomes for interprofessional education is essential to the design, delivery, and evaluation of effective interprofessional learning.

This workshop introduces models, theories and frameworks that can inform the transition from traditional content focused interprofessional curricula to a competency-based curricular model. This workshop is based on lived experience and showcases a longitudinal competency-based curriculum exemplar from Indiana University's Interprofessional Practice & Education Center.Session outline with active learning strategies: This workshop utilizes expert facilitation, participant workshop guides and team-based learning.

SESSION INTRODUCTION

1. Small group activity prompts: Identify your learners. Explicitly state your intended goals & outcomes for your learners.

Feedback to large group. Introduction of Constructive alignment.

2. Large Group Discussion

How can you ensure your learners have the attitudes, knowledge, skills, and behaviors for competent interprofessional collaborative practice?

How can you build activities likely to lead to your intended outcomes?

3. Introducing the WHO Competency Frameworks and examining different IP competency and capability models.

Presentation of an exemplar identifying the essential components of a competency-based interprofessional curriculum, followed by team activity. With support from facilitators, teams select a specific competency model to use to build competency trajectories

4. Teams formulate draft competency trajectories for their interprofessional activity/curriculum.

CONCLUSIONS AND QUESTIONS