• Promoting Collaboration in Public health; The US Experience
• Bercow review
• CIPeL Newsletter Summer 08
• The Journal of Interprofessional Care: Call for papers for inclusion in a special European Issue
• CAIPE Open Workshops
• Developers of User and Carer Involvement in Education (DUCIE) network
• Research Assistant Post Kobe University Japan
• AIPPEN Expression of interest survey for All Together Better Health (5th) 2010
• Australasian Interprofessional Practice and Education Network (AIPPEN)
• Unsung Medical Heroes - register your vote for Dr. John Horder here
• Chair's Annual Report - CAIPE AGM
• CAIPE launches its new website
• CAIPE in the Republic of Ireland
• WHO Survey on inteprofessional education and collaborative practice
• The Bercow Review
• NHS Centre for Involvement: Newsletter April Issue no 8
• Policy Press discount for CAIPE members
• Professor Lord Darzi interview.
• CAIPE's Annual General Meeting July 10th 2008
• The NHS Centre for Involvement
• Learning and Teaching for Interprofessional Practice
• CALL for CHAPTERS: Interprofessional E-Learning and Collaborative Work: Practices and Technologies
• CALL for ABSTRACTS: Collaborating Across Borders II
• Call for Abstracts, Interdisciplinary conference: "Engaging Reflection in Health Professional education and Practice
• EIPEN News
• Conference Announcement and Call for Papers
• CAIPE wishes all its members a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

EIPEN News

News from the EIPEN Project

EIPEN UK  held a workshop on Quality Assurance in Interprofessional Learning on 12 September 2008 at King’s College London.

Invited participants came from Higher Education Institutions across the four UK countries; CAIPE; Skills for Health; the Quality Assurance Agency; the General Medical Council, General Teaching Council, Higher Education Academy, York; Subject Centres for Health Sciences and Practice, Medicine, Dentistry and Veterinary Medicine and Social Policy and Social Work; NHS Education Scotland.

The workshop built on two previous EIPEN workshops focusing on quality assuring interprofessional learning and had the specific aim of developing an outline document for the UK with the provision title ‘towards quality assuring interprofessional learning in the UK’, and informing the EIPEN Research Project.

For further information please contact Dr. Marion Helme, Project Manager EIPEN at   marion.helme@kcl.ac.uk

The EIPEN Steering Group met in Ljubljana, Slovenia on September 25^th and 26^th. The meeting was followed by 2 days of workshops and presentations at the University of Ljubljana on the 29^th and 30^th September. Presenters came from Ljubljana, Sweden, Poland and the UK.

An EIPEN International workshop was held on October 23rd and 24^th. This event was organized by Professor Andre Vyt and hosted by University of Gent, Belgium.

The theme was Good Practices and Challenges in Interprofessional Education and participants came from Finland, Malta, Belgium and the UK. Marion Helme (EIPEN Project Manager) and Helena Low (CAIPE) opened the two day event with an interactive IPL workshop. Marion also delivered a presentation on the EIPEN Project and its future activities, and Helena presented on the Challenges of IPE in the UK in relation to Policy and Practice. Presenters from Malta, Finland and other Belgian Universities described how they were taking forward IPE.

 Abstracts of presentations at the workshop include: 

'The Growth of Interprofessional Education in the Antwerp Higher Education area'