IPE Colloquium program now live

The Australian Pharmacy Council (APC) is pleased to announce the program and Early Bird registration opening, for their 2025 IPE Colloquium™, which is being held on 13 May 2025 at Rydges Hotel, Melbourne.

The annual IPE Colloquium™ event builds upon APC’s ongoing efforts to work towards an interdisciplinary approach to health profession education and assessment. This popular event aims to provide a platform for cross-disciplinary dialogue between health profession educators, policy makers, and students.

Under the confirmed theme of "Breaking boundaries: Education as an enabler of trust in healthcare", APC has secured speakers from across the sector. The 2025 program is centred around how education can enable trust in healthcare and prepare students for a future shaped by expanded scopes of practice, misinformation, and planetary health.

APC CEO Bronwyn Clark emphasises the importance of trust within and across healthcare.

"Trust in our healthcare systems and between practitioners and consumers is crucial. Even more crucially, it's important for us to discuss ways of how professions from across the healthcare sector can work together for the betterment of all.

"This needs to start at the point of educating our future practitioners. There is so much good work already happening in these respective areas and I'm thrilled to have such a wonderful range of speakers at our IPE Colloquium event who are willing to share with us their experiences," Ms Clark expressed.

APC is delighted to have secured two international contributors to this event to join Australian speakers. The 2025 confirmed program speaker, contributors, and panel members come from a range of disciplines include medicine, pharmacy, nursing and midwifery, speech pathology and social science, to accompany the voices of students and consumers

With more speakers to be announced shortly, confirmed speakers and contributors are:

• Prof Tina Brock, University of Melbourne
• Prof Zubin Austin, University of Toronto, Canada (virtual)
• Dr Hayley Blackburn University of Montana, USA
• Dr Lynda Cardiff, University Queensland
• Prof Julie Leask AO, University of Sydney
• Prof Lisa Nissen, University of Queensland  

APC is also seeking Expressions of Interest to present on Effective Examples of Interprofessional Education and the role that trust plays.

For further information, see the IPE Colloquium™ program.

Early Bird registrations are now open until 31 March 2025.