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Interprofessional education (IPE) using innovative online platforms at Baycrest First Virtual Structured Interprofessional Educa on (IPE) placement in collabora on with Sunnybrook. In March 2021, Baycrest students had the opportunity to par cipate in a unique virtual, cross-organiza onal structured IPE placement with students from Sunnybrook. The placement was co-facilitated by Baycrest and Sunnybrook educators and included Therapeu c Recrea on, Diete cs, Social Work, Clinical Pastoral Educa on, Pharmacy, Nursing, Occupa onal Therapy, Crea ve Art Therapy, and Audiology students. This inaugural four-week session focused on Care of Older Adults and introduced topics such as successful aging, ageism, and how COVID-19 has affected older adults. Older adult volunteers from Baycrest shared their personal stories about social isola on, loneliness, and pandemic coping strategies. Mul ple strategies were used to op mize student engagement, including small group work, just-in- me polling, facilitated discussions, and students' choice of topics for the sessions and presenta ons. Students appreciated how the virtual format enabled learning about, from, and with students from another organiza on. page 3 The COVID-19 pandemic caused many medical schools to move to en rely online learning. In response to this challenge, Dr. Michelle Hart, Staff Physician in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at Baycrest and Geriatrics, and Care of the Elderly Theme Lead for the MD program at the University of Toronto, and colleagues devised an innova ve way to provide a virtual IPE experience in long-term care (LTC), using point-of-view live-streaming technology, for the Year 1 Health in Community curriculum at the Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto. In November 2020, 260 first-year medical students a ended a virtual tour of the Apotex Centre, Jewish Home for the Aged at Baycrest that was captured on an iPad on wheels. The tour, facilitated by Dr. Hart, involved six interviews with members of the Apotex LTC interprofessional team and a resident. The team shared their roles and described how their work contributes to shaping the community life of each resident. The response from the medical students was incredibly posi ve and shows how the use of live-streaming technology can enhance community-situated, interprofessional learning. Dr. Hart using live stream technology for IPE training of medical students

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