Student Led IPE Events

Submitting Your Request for Event IPE Points

Student-led IPE events and activities that fulfill the program’s requirements may count toward the immersion stage, provided they receive prior approval from the Waterloo Pharmacy IPE team (pharmacyipe@uwaterloo.ca). 

If your student group is organizing an interprofessional event or activity, please follow these steps:

  1. Complete an IPE Event Application Form (below) 
    1. Submit your form a minimum of 4 weeks prior to your event to allow time for review, approval and event promotion.
    2. You will receive feedback within 48 hours indicating whether your activity has been approved, declined or requires more information. 
  2. If you have indicated you wish to promoting your event internally to pharmacy students and/or externally to our IPE partners at Optometry, Renison Social Work, McMaster Medicine, Conestoga College Nursing or Western (health and social care programs) attach an event poster with a registration link to share.

Eligibility

  • Events must be 2 hours minimum.
  • Events with speakers who are predominantly pharmacists are not eligible for IPE points.
  • Activities intended for patients/caregivers or the general public, are only acceptable if there are other health care professionals/students in participation.
  • Activities are not eligible for IPE points if the number of pharmacists /pharmacy students far exceeds that of the other participants. 
  • In the Immersion stage, students are expected to interact/collaborate/engage in activities with other health care provider/student participants/speakers. This does not include social events (e.g. dinner at a restaurant)
  • The topic must focus on health or social care.
  • Presentations made by professionals to promote their own products or services will not be approved.
Specify all that apply - seminar, workshop, IP speaker panel, large group case discussion, breakout group activity, role-play, simulation, journal club, job shadow, Q&A, team exercises, etc. Are there any social aspects to the activity? E.g. icebreaker games, networking, dinner, etc.
Student organization mandate, small group, etc.
Event Setting
Please include name, title, discipline, practice site
Number of pharmacy students out of total health care practitioner/student participants, e.g. ratio of low, equal, or high

Relevance to IPE

While clinical information may shape the event the interprofessional competencies should be prominently incorporated and a central part of the expected learning outcomes. Please include at least 2 learning objectives related to Interprofessional Collaboration and specify what CIHC competencies students will have the opportunity to develop during this activity. In addition, please describe how the event will achieve the IPC learning objectives you have set out (this could include introductory comments, the facilitated questions you are using, the breakdown of roles in a case, guest speaker talking points, interactive survey questions, etc.)

Such as speaker slide deck, cases for discussion, facilitation questions, etc
Once Approved, We Would Appreciate Assistance in Promoting this Event
One file only.
100 MB limit.
Allowed types: gif, jpg, png, svg.
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