David Boehm, Assistant Deputy Minister Sector Relations and Student Services

Saskatchewan Ministry of Advanced Education

Ministry of Advanced Education

• Provides leadership and resources to foster a high-quality advanced education and training system that responds to the needs of Saskatchewan’s people and economy.

• Supports growth by ensuring an educated and skilled workforce to meet existing and future labour market demand.

Saskatchewan Plan for Growth

Experiential Learning:• Students will receive the information

education, and experience needed to … identify future career paths by expanding post-secondary co-op and career development opportunities.

Changing Expectations

Work ready plus:

• Sustainability literate in the profession/discipline

• Change implementation savvy• Creative, inventive, entrepreneurial• Ability to work effectively in teams

Evolving Sector Needs

• Demand-side perspective• New models of care – working in teams

to full scope of practice• Transformation of health care –

“better teams”

IPE in Health Science Programs• We must prepare our students in health

science programs for a changing workplace.

• We need to find ways to better prepare health care workers in their educational programs to work in teams, learn together and break down the silos.

IPE in Health Science Programs• Programs need to be innovative and

creative in working together to ensure Saskatchewan students have the required experiences to move our health system forward.

• Look outside individual institutions for opportunities to collaborate in education. 

IPE in Health Science Programs • It is important for government to listen to

what health educators and stakeholders feel they need for inter-professional education to be successful.

• Inter-professional education is helpful to students and the health disciplines they will be entering.  For example, inter-professional education staging

assists students with transfers and helps them to ladder into different health programs.

IPE in Health Science Programs• Embedding IPE into programs may require

changing how PSIs design curriculum, how they evaluate faculty and students, and how they work with the health system.

The Inter-professional Health Collaborative of Saskatchewan (IHCS)• The IHCS is a network with an expressed

interest in inter-professional health education, practice and policy. The IHCS is working toward several key goals: Establishing an Inter-professional Education and collaborative

practice framework or model for the province;

Developing key priorities that will lead to a comprehensive longer term IP plan relevant to both the academic programs and practice settings;

Maintaining existing and strengthen new IP linkages: provincially, regionally and nationally; and

Exploring funding opportunities to advance IP collaboration and education in the province.