Competent for collaborative practice: What does a collaborative practitioner look like and how does the practice context influence interprofessional education?

One example of a competency framework focused on interprofessional practice and guided by an integrative pedagogy was developed by the Canadian Interprofessional Health Collaboration (CIHC). This framework provides a structure for assessing an individual's ability to collaborate based on the integration of knowledge, skills, attitudes and values leading to judgements in varying contexts. The framework posits that interprofessional competencies are consistent and stand the 'test of time', while associated descriptors are reflective of learners' or practitioners' experiential base and context. The competency framework is composed of six integrated competency domains that together result in interprofessional collaboration, with each possessing a set of corresponding indicators.