Interdisciplinary Collaboration Reflection
Script for a recorded video does not need to be APA format. (5 minutes) where you reflect on an interprofessional collaboration experience, proposing recommendations for how to improve interprofessional collaboration that can be shared with leadership and colleagues. Support these recommendations with references to the literature.
The interprofessional project that you reflect on may be one that you collaborated on at your current or former place of practice, or you may choose to imagine you collaborated on the interprofessional project presented in the Assessment 01 Supplement: Collaboration and Leadership Reflection Video [PDF] Download Assessment 01 Supplement: Collaboration and Leadership Reflection Video [PDF] resource and reflect on that.
Interdisciplinary Collaboration Reflection
Be sure that your assessment addresses the following criteria. Please study the scoring guide carefully so you will know what is needed for a distinguished score:
- Reflect on an interdisciplinary collaboration experience, noting ways in which it was successful and unsuccessful in achieving desired outcomes.
- Explain aspects of the collaboration that helped the team make progress toward relevant goals or outcomes.
- Explain aspects of the collaboration that could have been improved.
- Identify how poor collaboration can result in inefficient management of human and financial resources, citing supporting evidence from the literature.
- Discuss the ways in which the interdisciplinary team did not collaborate effectively.
Interdisciplinary Collaboration Reflection
- Discuss the negative implications for the human and financial resources of the interdisciplinary team and the organization as a whole.
- Cite the literature for support.
- Identify best-practice leadership strategies from the literature that would improve an interdisciplinary team’s ability to achieve its goals, citing at least one author from the literature.
- Identify at least one leadership best practice or strategy that you believe would improve the team’s ability to achieve their goals.
- Identify the strategy and its source or author and provide a brief rationale for your choice of strategy.
- Cite the literature for support.
Interdisciplinary Collaboration Reflection
- Identify best-practice interdisciplinary collaboration strategies to help a team achieve its goals and work together, citing the work of at least one author.
- Identify at least one best practice or strategy for interdisciplinary collaboration to help the team achieve its goals and work more effectively together.
- Identify the strategy, its source, and reasons why you think it will be effective.
- Communicate in a professional manner, and uses proper grammar. Format reference list in current APA style.
- Submit an APA-formatted reference list for any sources that you cited specifically in your video or used to inform your presentation.
- The Example Reflection will show you how to cite scholarly sources in the context of an oral presentation.