A national collaborative leadership education partnership involving UBC has received $2.7 million over three years from the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care (MOHLTC).
Lesley Bainbridge
The Canadian Interprofessional Health Leadership Collaborative (CIHLC) is one of four proposals chosen by the U.S. Institute of Medicine’s Board on Global Health last year to develop and pilot “leadership mobilization” ideas, outlined in the Lancet Commission Report, Health Professionals for a New Century: Transforming Education to Strengthen Health Systems in an Interdependent World.
The collaborative also includes the University of Toronto, the Northern Ontario School of Medicine, Université Laval and Queen’s University. In addition to the substantial support from the five University partners and in-kind contributions of UBC and Université Laval, the Ontario grant facilitates international recognition of innovation in health leadership program development across Canada and the world.
The CIHLC will develop, implement, evaluate and disseminate an evidence-based and commercially viable collaborative leadership education program targeted at emerging leaders in health care. The program will enable participants to lead system change and to collaboratively confront complex health challenges by using social accountability and community engagement as foundational principles.
“This training program will build on existing leadership skills, taking participants to a new level of complexity and relevance in the emerging new world of health,” said Lesley Bainbridge, Director of Interprofessional Education in the Faculty of Medicine, and UBC’s liasion to the CIHLC.
The call to develop new training programs grew from the Commission on the Education of Health Professionals for the 21st Century, an international body launched in 2010 to address gaps in health professionals’ ability to deal with pressing challenges, such as the uneven distribution of health professionals, a mismatch between their competencies and patient needs, a lack of teamwork and insufficient leadership to improve performance.
The commission report, published by the British medical journal The Lancet, prompted the Institute of Medicine, an arm of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, to develop and pilot ideas for reforming health professional education.