Supporting students' collaborative practice: a narrative reflection on a workshop for developing clinical educators' interprofessional rapport.

Abstract

This report introduces a narrative reflection from an interprofessional team who developed and delivered a workshop for clinical educators aimed at enhancing students' interprofessional collaborative practice for patient care. This innovative project focused on educators' role modeling of interprofessional rapport. We report our narrative reflections, highlighting how we embedded creativity into both the workshop and these reflections and how we as researchers value rapport in working together. Using dialogue and creative methods, we provide brief details of the workshop, and share our insights around its development, implementation, and evaluation. Integral to the workshop was our previous research identifying interprofessional rapport as key to interprofessional collaborative practice. We extended this previous research to draw on what we observed as the unrealized potential for developing students' interprofessional collaborative practice by focusing on clinical educators' role modeling of interprofessional rapport in the context of work-integrated learning. We share our experiences and perceptions of the workshops through our reflections to highlight the importance of rapport for authenticity across the project, including responding to vulnerability, maintaining momentum, supporting critical reflections, and nurturing our connections.