Monica stretches out from Occupational Therapy to 'interprofessional education'
Published on 02 October, 2012
Associate Professor Monica Moran is across a range of projects, stretching out well beyond her role as Joint Program Lead for Occupational Therapy.
Most of her projects champion the benefits of an interprofessional education (IPE) approach to developing the health sector, on a national and global scale.
In early October, for example, she is off to Japan to co-present a symposium with colleagues from University of Queensland, University of Western Australia and University of Technology Sydney on a national audit of IPD activity, development of a national curriculum framework and an IPE curriculum implementation guide, and a state-based IP consultation and development activity in Western Australia. The symposium is part of the international interprofessional conferences ‘All Together Better Health 6'. At the same conference she will present a paper describing the educational processes being followed by the Allied Health team to create interprofessional curricula here at CQUniversity.
The busy academic is also managing the Australasian leg of a global project examining Interprofessional Competencies for Collaborative Care.
She is also a managing director of HealthFusion Team Challenge (a competition for students from across Australia and New Zealand, with more than 20 universities involved) and facilitates an Australasian Interprofessional Network with more than 500 members.
Monica is representing CQUniversity on an OLT-funded* national project team aiming to develop and deliver a package of work-based assessment tools for health professional students in diverse clinical settings, as a means of testing their teamwork competencies and interprofessional collaboration in the workplace.
This project Work-based assessment of teamwork: an inter-professional approach, is hosted by the University of Queensland and also involves CQUniversity alongside Curtin Uni, the Uni of Sydney, the Uni of Technology Sydney, and the Uni of British Columbia in Canada.
"CQUniversity will certainly be actively involved in the research project both as a pilot test site and as an exemplar for team-based Work Integrated Learning," Monica says.
* OLT = Office of Learning and Teaching.