Paula
Rowland,
PhD, OT
University of Toronto
ON,
Canada
Paula started her career as an occupational therapist. She is now a Scientist with the Wilson Centre and Medical Education at the Temerty Faculty of Medicine at University of Toronto. Drawing primarily from sociology , Paula pursues social science understandings of improvement work in healthcare. Her research has focused on patient safety programs, patient engagement initiatives, and health information technologies. Her research has implications for how people in healthcare organizations work and learn with one another and with patients. At the Centre for Advancing Collaborative Healthcare & Education (CACHE) at University of Toronto, Paula serves as a research advisor.
Presenting at CAB 2025:
We will explore three potential contributions to interprofessional education: management reasoning, collective competence, and critically reflective practice. These concepts can help prepare future graduates for the complexity of working in increasingly pressured contexts. Through facilitated discussion, participants will consider how these ideas can be incorporated into their educational practices.
Power underlies all we do in interprofessional collaboration, yet it is not well addressed in IPE. In this workshop, we will conceptualize 'power' as a system of social relations, and share evidence-informed educational approaches that can enable learners to notice and act with greater awareness of power relations. Participants will engage in activities to understand and teach about address power relations, ultimately enhancing interprofessional education and practice.
We report our knowledge synthesis of 18 science and technology informed studies on (a) how healthcare professionals experience health information system (HIS) implementation and (b) the unintended and paradoxical effects of HIS on interprofessional collaboration. Our study has implications for interprofessional education and for leadership approaches to HIS implementation and evaluation.