In-TICE: An Integrated Tool for Interprofessional Clinical Educators

Clinical educators in healthcare disciplines/professions are expected to synthesize research-based models and strategies into their own unique supervisory style. Therefore, best practice is to provide systematic cross-disciplinary training tools that assist clinical educators in meeting this expectation. The authors--from the disciplines of nursing, speech-language pathology, physical therapy, and occupational therapy--examined learning theories, models of supervision, and strategies for clinical education and determined common themes across and within them. This led to the creation of a summative and integrated tool (the Integrated Tool for Interprofessional Clinical Educators, In-TICE) to assist clinical educators in linking conceptual models/theories and supervisory strategies and applying them in their practice. The tool, coined In-TICE, was then used as a guide for problem solving case study examples during an interprofessional workshop. In-TICE may offer a significant contribution to the systematic training of clinical educators across healthcare professions, as it can be applied across all practice settings.