In-BC created the following videos to promote interprofessional collaborative patient-centred
practice. We would like to gratefully acknowledge the time, effort, and insights shared by the
participants. The videos provided here can be downloaded (right-click the link) for use, display,
or distribution, with the following conditions:
These videos are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative
Works 3.0 License:
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with the additional restriction that they can only be used for health educational purposes.
To request any other use of, or permission to edit these videos, email Tony Flavell at:
tflavell@interchange.ubc.ca
Donna recounts the touching story of the journey through the healthcare system by herself and her son Spencer. Their story is in two parts, comparing the conspicuous difference in treatment she and her son experienced between “traditional” silo-ed practice and interprofessional teamwork.
In Part I, Donna describes the lack of communication between health care providers that leads up
to Spencer’s ultimate respiratory arrest and consequent brain damage.
Donna+Spencer I 320x240.mov (11:45) 21MB
In Part II, Donna expresses her appreciation for the collaborative teamwork and consideration of
her opinions in Spencer’s subsequent care.
Donna+Spencer II 320x240.mov (10:12) 21MB
Members of the ALS (Lou Gehrig’s Disease) interprofessional team at GF Strong describe and reflect on their day-to-day collaborative interprofessional patient/client-centred teamwork. There are 12 vignettes which give insight into the techniques, practicalities, relationships, and process of this accomplished and coherent team. Five representative members of the larger team share their experience in these videos: a speech-language pathologist, social worker, occupational therapist, clinic nurse, and dietician.
The GF Strong ALS Team...
In the following videos, Heather Fowlie expresses her views on effective patient/client and family-centred practice based on her years of experience as a mother coping with her son Quinn’s lengthy recovery in acute care
Through the experiences of an interprofessional student team, the ten minute film Learning Together in
Rural Communities highlights the voices of students, the passion of people living in rural communities,
and the natural beauty of British Columbia. Students representing nursing, pharmacy, physical therapy and
medicine are shown interacting with one another while on placement in Port McNeill, one of eight BC communities
which have pioneered interprofessional rural placements through the
Interprofessional Rural Program of BC (IRPbc).
IRPbc 320x240.mov (10:24) 33MB