IPE Colloquium 2022
The Interprofessional Colloquium’s 2022 theme enlighten, empower and emancipate – planting the seeds to future-proof our professions threaded key messages of transforming education so that students feel a sense of belonging and empowered to disrupt the status quo.
Over 160 delegates and 23 speakers examined how educators and trainers can produce a resilient and future-focussed workforce. The program highlighted just how critical students are to mitigating risks and lessening the effects of continuing global issues, such as pandemics.
“We believe that when you give students the right tools and give them the confidence and reassurance that they hold the power to create change, then they will want to be the disruptors. And they will feel confident to make real change. But for them to have that mindset, it’s up to us as educators to plant those seeds to future proof our professions.” Bronwyn Clark, CEO APC
“Start treating students as our colleagues. Because they will be.” – Lorraine Fields, Registered Nurse and Lecturer at Wollongong University
Professor Debra Rowett PSM, President of Council of Pharmacy Schools ANZ (CPS), and Professor Karen Strickland, President of Council of Deans of Nursing and Midwifery (CDNM), delivered an Outcome Statement, making a public commitment to supporting students.
The joint statement from the Australian Pharmacy Council (APC), the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Accreditation Council (ANMAC), CDNM, and CPS, emphasises the importance of empowering students to deliver future focussed primary healthcare.
Read the outcome statement
Professor Strickland and Professor Rowett addressed questions of how we co-create as students, educators, regulators and community to grow our workforce and influence healthcare reform. They also touched on the growing challenges of climate change, digital health, and Artificial Intelligence.
Read the full article“The modernised health system will be more integrated, efficient, focused on patients and equitable. But how do we get there?” asked Professor Rowett.
