Background: Evidence indicates that professional development focused on collaborative practice can improve the quality of care and patient outcomes in specific populations. However, current educational knowledge does not include how to teach professionals to provide interprofessional collaborative care.Methods: This paper discusses the design, implementation and evaluation of the Interprofessional Collaborative Learning Series (IP-CLS), which provides clinicians with interprofessional professional development that promotes interprofessional competencies, allowing them to incorporate elements of interprofessional collaboration into practice, and creates leaders for interprofessional collaborative practice. The IP-CLS was piloted at a regional health centre in Ontario. Participants completed an online retrospective before and after self-assessment to determine the extent to which the IP-CLS contributed to changes in participants' behaviours related to interprofessional collaboration.
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