Vivienne
Mak,
PhD
Associate Professor
University of Melbourne
A/Prof Vivienne Mak is the Education Lead at the Collaborative Practice Centre, championing interprofessional education and collaboration in health and social care. Passionate about innovative educational technologies, she designs dynamic learning environments that foster teamwork and improve outcomes. Vivienne builds cross-disciplinary networks to support knowledge exchange and best practice, continually exploring new approaches to teaching and curriculum design to equip future professionals for effective, person-centred teamwork.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
Effective interprofessional communication is essential for high-quality, safe, and coordinated care across all healthcare settings. This communication spans verbal and written exchanges, digital and analogue tools, and includes both synchronous and asynchronous interactions. Despite this complexity, current interprofessional education frequently centers on hospital-based, face-to-face scenarios, which do not reflect the distributed, episodic, and often layered communication that occurs in practice. As a result, a disconnect often exists between what students are taught and what they encounter…
Description: The Collaborative Practice Centre (CPC), within the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences (FMDHS) at the University of Melbourne in Australia, was charged to design, implement, and evaluate an interprofessional collaborative practice curriculum across 14 health and social care programs. This presentation shares insights from the design and early implementation of the curriculum. It will detail (1) the collaborative, evidence-based development of the curriculum framework and (2) the curriculum mapping-informed interprofessional curriculum and implementation plan. The…