As health education transitions towards interprofessional curricula, the use of online technologies can provide ways to bring interprofessional learners together. In this presentation I will discuss strategies for developing students and educators presence and community in online interprofessional learning spaces. These strategies include: 1) self-directed learning spaces where students and educators can reflect on online resources that are drawn from different health professions, 2) online learning spaces where skills for effective teamwork can be developed, 3) virtual communities of practice for developing integrated clinical reasoning skills, and 4) virtual clinics and video case conferencing. Examples will be drawn from the emerging body of literature and from practice and are designed to prompt reflection on the quality of the educational experience in the online learning environment as students develop through phases of interprofessional learning (from early exposure, to immersion, and finally to collaborative patient care).
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