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Implementing IPE in Primary Care: Enablers and Barriers
In our study, we aimed to understand the perceived enablers and barriers to Interprofessional Education (IPE) for practicing professionals in Singapore's primary care setting.
Our research demonstrated the complexity and interrelation of the factors associated with implementing IPE in a real-world clinical environment. We found that individual factors, such as past experiences and the work environment, influence how healthcare professionals perceive IPE. Crucially, these are not isolated issues; they are interconnected with factors related to educators, institutional leadership, and the broader healthcare system.
This highlights that a multipronged approach is essential for successful implementation. Our work provides a roadmap for designing an IPE curriculum that integrates well with clinical practice by addressing the interconnected challenges at the individual, educational, and systemic levels to foster a truly collaborative workforce.
Dr Lee Cia Sin
Perspectives on Interprofessional Collaborative Primary Care Practice within Singapore’s Polyclinics
This presentation shares findings from the first qualitative study within Asia that examines interprofessional collaborative practice (IPC) within Singapore's polyclinic teamlets. Through focus group discussions with 27 healthcare providers (doctors, care managers, and care coordinators) across seven polyclinics, we identified three interconnected factor categories essential for successful teamlet collaboration.
Personal factors - including respectfulness, trustworthiness, proactivity, and collaborative mindset - form the foundational person-centred traits that enable effective teamwork.
Interpersonal factors - encompassing role clarity, open communication, mutual support, and collective learning - create the relational infrastructure for coordinated care delivery, with gradual improvement in standards of care. While care managers and coordinators collaborate effectively, structural barriers limit doctor engagement.
System factors - leadership quality, inclusive team huddles, user-friendly technology, and balanced performance indicators - either enable or constrain collaborative practice. Current quantitative KPIs consistently emerged as collaboration barriers.
This research reveals that successful IPC requires viewing these factors as dynamically interconnected rather than discrete elements. Key recommendations include enhancing collaborative IT platforms, creating structural incentives for doctor-care manager partnerships, incorporating qualitative metrics to assess patient-centred care, and ensuring inclusive team huddles to optimise primary care delivery in Singapore's evolving healthcare landscape.
Dr Haresh S/O Singaraju
Facilitating interprofessional collaboration through MyChaTime
"MyChaTime," is a ground-up IPE initiative piloted at Marine Parade Polyclinic to address common topics that emerge in interprofessional work. Facilitated by four representatives from the various departments, it is designed to directly target the identified barriers through short, interactive lunchtime sessions. The evaluation of the program demonstrated significant success, leading to concrete, positive changes in clinical workflows, such as improved documentation, clearer role delineation, as well as better teamwork and enhanced communication for better patient care.
Dr Navpreet Kaur
A Sustainable Approach to Advance Interprofessional Learning
There has been a lot of emphasis on value- based and seamless integrated care towards delivering person and population-centred healthcare which is ideal, essential and optimal. Interprofessional collaborative practice amongst healthcare professionals and others involved in the various phases of the transitions of care (from primary care/general practitioner clinics to hospital and back to the community), is a key enabler. There have been many on-going efforts to weave in skills and competencies for interprofessional education (learning with, from and about each other) explicitly into the training of pre-professionals and healthcare professionals.
We share some workplace-based training which not only focusses on interprofessional skills and competencies such as communication, role clarity, team dynamics and conflict resolution, patient-centred care, but also incorporate the more subtle complexities like, power dynamics, psychological safety and moving away from stereotyping to respect. This, to facilitate more insightful interprofessional learning which ultimately benefits the patients and the populations, we serve.
Dr Predeebha d/o PN Kannan
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