Isabel
Paton,
PhD, Grad. Cert. Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, Grad. Cert. in Business Adminstratinon, Grad. Cert. in Public Health, Ba. Physiotherapy, SFHEA
Associate Head of School Learning & Teaching and Senior Lecturer Physiotherapy
Charles Sturt University
Dr. Isabel Paton (PhD, SFHEA, AAUP, Grad. Cert, in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, Grad. Cert. in Business Administration, Grad. Cert. in Public Health, Ba. Physiotherapy), is an Associate Head of School and Senior Lecturer at Charles Sturt University, Australia. Isabel completed her Doctor of Philosophy in 2021 exploring ‘The development of allied health student collaborative practice capability in higher education’, presenting and publishing nationally and internationally. Isabel’s ongoing post-doctoral research is based around expanding on her PhD findings and exploring the development of collaborative practice capability in allied health courses, alongside enhancing collaborative practice in healthcare settings. Current research is focused on exploring new allied heatlh graduate perceptions of their prepardeness for interprofessional collaborative practice. Isabel is also researching IPE and how it is preparing health graduates for contemporary practice considerations such as the use of GenAI, cultural safety and Digital Health Technologies in contemporary healthcare practice settings.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
A description of the Lightning talk: Interprofessional collaborative practice models of healthcare are required to best meet the complex needs of contemporary patients and clients. Allied health professionals are integral to these models, and are a unique group deserving of explicit focus because of the way they come from varied origins, comprise many professions, work in many groupings and have relatively flat hierarchical structures, as distinct to other heath professions. The importance of interprofessional collaborative practice models of healthcare in meeting the needs of contemporary…