Meaghan
Sim,
PhD, RD
Implementation Scientist
Nova Scotia Health
Meaghan Sim is a scientist with the Implementation Science team at Nova Scotia Health (Research, Innovation & Discovery portfolio) supporting emerging health system priorities. Meaghan has been a registered dietitian for 18 years and has a diverse background that includes health promotion and community-based practice. Along with health systems research, her activities and interests include maternal and child health, health equity, implementation science, and interprofessional practice. She holds a PhD (Interdisciplinary), MSc (Applied Human Nutrition), and a BSc (Honours) in Nutrition, and was a CIHR Health System Impact Postdoctoral Fellow with Nova Scotia Health.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
Purpose: Interprofessional collaborative practice (IPCP), occurs when health professions work collaboratively with the goal of improved quality of care and services. IPCP is reported to enhance patient outcomes and care providers’ professional and workplace satisfaction, yet there exist myriad challenges to enacting it. Interprofessional education for collaborative practice (IPECP) is considered foundational for promoting collaboration among healthcare students yet there is a gap in understanding how IPECP contributes to students’ professional and interprofessional identity development and…
Purpose: Interprofessional education for collaborative practice (IPECP) within pre-licensure health education supports professional and interprofessional socialization where understanding of roles, scopes and collaboration are developed. IPECP also promotes interprofessional identity development where students come to embody collaborative skills, attitudes and behaviors that enable collaboration in practice. Medical students are involved in IPECP, however few studies have followed students longitudinally into practice to understand impacts of interprofessional practice experiences on…