| Title | Harmonizing interdisciplinary virtual teams (HIVE): Development and implementation of a spiral educational intervention content in UBC Health Integrated Curriculum |
|---|---|
| Faculty/College/Unit | Medicine |
| Status | Active |
| Duration | 2 Year |
| Initiation | 04/01/2025 |
| Funding Details | |
| Year 1: Project Year | Year 1 |
| Year 1: Funding Year | 2025/2026 |
| Year 1: Project Type | Small TLEF |
| Year 1: Principal Investigator | Kendall Ho |
| Year 1: Funded Amount | 24,983 |
| Year 1: Team Members | Co-Leads: Kendall Ho, Professor, Emergency Medicine, Faculty of Medicine Victoria Wood, Managing Director, UBC Health |
| Year 1: Summary | Since COVID, virtual care (VC) became integral to healthcare service delivery, facilitating interprofessional collaboration for team-based patient-centred care. Universities must support students to learn the most up-to-date VC skills; instructors can benefit from educational interventions that incorporate perspectives from health professions, patients, and organizations offering interprofessional VC services. UBC Health’s Integrated Curriculum spans 14 health professional programs covering topics fostering interprofessional learning for team-based care. Existing IC health informatics modules were created pre-COVID without practicum opportunities. Given 40% of student learning occurs in clinical placements, integrating this is crucial. This project engages faculty, students, and patients to co-design VC educational interventions at UBC/UBCO to align with interprofessional clinical teaching environments and ensure the integration of VC and collaborative competencies. This project will result in a range of educational resources including an online module incorporating gamification and practicums to prepare health professional students for interprofessional VC collaboration matching health system needs. |
| Year 2: Project Year | Year 2 |
| Year 2: Funding Year | 2026/2027 |
| Year 2: Project Type | Small TLEF |
| Year 2: Principal Investigator | Kendall Ho |
| Year 2: Funded Amount | 21,227 |
| Year 2: Team Members | Co-Leads: Kendall Ho, Professor, Emergency Medicine, Faculty of Medicine Victoria Wood, Managing Director, UBC Health |
| Year 2: Summary | COVID-19 accelerated the integration of virtual care (VC) into healthcare delivery, making it a core component of hybrid, team-based, relationship-centred care. To prepare future health professionals, universities must embed contemporary VC competencies into curricula, guided by best practices from communities and informed by health professionals and patients. Rural, remote, and Indigenous communities offer vital insights for curriculum design. UBC Health’s Integrated Curriculum (IC), spanning 14 health programs, fosters interprofessional learning and needs updating VC content and practicum opportunities. This project engages faculty, students, and patients to co-design VC educational interventions aligned with clinical teaching environments. In Year 1, our Student Caucus reviewed literature, surveyed faculty, mapped VC content across UBC/UBCO programs, and created a pilot webinar. In Year 2, we will modernize IC health informatics modules and expand practicum opportunities, producing a spiral curriculum with educational resources to fully prepare students for interprofessional VC collaboration upon completion of their training. |