The majority of literature regarding interprofessional education involves only two health care professions and is associated within a formal classroom or a simulation setting. There are none published that report outcomes from family medicine residents’ rotational activities, none that involve more than two professions simultaneously, and none that utilize case discussions built from ‘real world’ scenarios. Our objective is to take advantage of a real world interprofessional teaching clinic and build upon relationships fostered from direct patient care in order to create an interprofessional case series where learners from medicine, psychology, pharmacy and social work collaborate to create a comprehensive care plan for selected patient cases. In a setting separate from clinic (where concern for patient flow may limit time for simultaneous whole team conversation) patient cases are presented to learners on their geriatrics rotation, and learners are encouraged to collaborate with each other in order to gain knowledge necessary to create an appropriate care plan. Learners are assessed by a baseline and followup Interdisciplinary Education Perception Scale before and after the case discussion, and are surveyed about educational merit of the exercise and their suggestions for improvement. At the time of this abstract the case series has met monthly for 9 months: it has been positively regarded by learners in all professions. It is our hypothesis that the interprofessional case series will positively influence learners’ perception of interprofessional work, and will be a novel, rich learning opportunity for learners to work together to enhance a complex patient’s care.
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