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“The Power of Positivity: An Interview with Client C”

In preparation for the Collaborating Across Borders IV (CABIV) conference, the CIHC will post a series of blogs with patients/clients around their thoughts on team-based health care. The goal is to showcase the realities of team-based care from a variety of different perspectives. Much literature is devoted to discussion about how team-based care benefits patients [...]

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Q & A with Patient A

In preparation for the Collaborating Across Borders IV (CABIV) conference, the CIHC will post a series of blogs with patients/clients around their thoughts on team-based health care. The goal is to showcase the realities of team-based care from the perspective of the end-user. Much literature is devoted to discussion about how team-based care benefits patients [...]

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HIV care management by not-for-profits as a model of team-based health care

In preparation for the Collaborating Across Borders IV (CABIV) conference, the CIHC will post a series of blogs with patients/clients around their thoughts on team-based health care. The goal is to showcase the realities of team-based care from a variety of different perspectives. Much literature is devoted to discussion about how team-based care benefits patients [...]

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An Interview with Patient B

In preparation for the Collaborating Across Borders IV (CABIV) conference, the CIHC will post a series of blogs with patients/clients around their thoughts on team-based health care. The goal is to showcase the realities of team-based care from a variety of different perspectives. Much literature is devoted to discussion about how team-based care benefits patients [...]

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Coming Soon…..

Stay tuned to this blog for a new interview series focused on patients/clients.  We’ll return in January with some exciting new posts! In the meantime, we wish everyone a safe, happy and healthy holiday season.

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A Conversation with Members of the CAB IV Executive Team

As the CAB IV conference approaches, the CIHC will use this blog as a platform to introduce you to members of the Executive Planning Committee in order to provide you with their perspectives on this exciting upcoming event.  This month we are pleased to present a conversation with the following: Dr. Sheree Aston OD, PhD, [...]

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Interview with Kamini Kalia RN, MScN. Twitter: @nursekama Website: http://nursekama.com

          Why is IP important broadly? As a healthcare system, my concern is that we don’t work efficiently and effectively. We’re not a machine that runs smoothly. One of the solutions to this fragmentation is IPE/IPC. As a clinician I see this fragmentation within in teams but also at a larger [...]

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UBC’s Health Care Team Challenge

Health Care Team Challenge Background: Introduced at UBC in the 1980’s, the Health Care Team Challenge (HCTC) provides teams of health sciences students (10-12 students in total who may be volunteers but who also may be appointed by faculty members) from different disciplines an opportunity to learn from with and about each other in developing [...]

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Dr Jennifer Gardy: Year of Science Video!

The Year of Science features Dr. Jennifer Gardy of the BC Center for Disease Control. Original airdate November 25, 2010 on Global TV BC.

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The 2010 NaHSSA Conference = Amazing Times!

Students, educators and other professionals from the health care practice community descended on the Sheraton Hotel in downtown Hamilton, Ontario this past weekend to participate in the 2010 NaHSSA Conference. The National Health Sciences Students’ Association did a great job of organizing their yearly gathering and bringing together some of the brightest lights in the [...]

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