Please see the message below regarding a voluntary opportunity for you to participate in a research project being led by Dr. Laura MacDonald, School of Dental Hygiene, University of Manitoba. The project has received ethical approval and College of Nursing leadership approval. You are under no obligation to participate.

As a health profession student, we invite you to participate in a pilot of a novel initiative titled:
Team-Based Collaborative Experiential Learning (TBCEL): From Head to Toes

The initiative offers a unique opportunity to engage in team-based learning with students from other health disciplines and patients, focusing on the integration of oral and overall health. Though oral health is integral to overall health, it is often underrepresented in non-oral health professional education. This pilot offers you the opportunity to explore the relationship in a collaborative manner with fellow health profession students in an experiential learning practice setting. We hope you join us and help interprofessional education planners gain insights into future opportunities promoting wholistic healthcare.

The commitment involves participation in the following:

• Team orientation session (via UM Zoom during a noon hour). This will take place in March/April.
• Two in-person team meetings with two of your patients (at different times) in the dental clinic of the Dr. Gerald Niznick College of Dentistry (during a noon hour; about 70 minutes, includes a team debrief). These will take place between March-May.
• Please note, the following dates are planned, but there will be others: March 30^th, April 20-23^rd. All at noon hour and on the Bannatyne Campus in the dental clinic. We hope you can participate in 1-2 of these.
• Team Focus Group (via UM Zoom during a noon hour; no more than 80 minutes). This will take place after the second patient meeting between March-June.

If you would like to participate or have questions, please contact the TBCEL pilot investigators at Dr. Gayle Halas at Gayle.Halas@umanitoba.ca, Dr. Moni Fricke at Moni-Fricke@umanitoba.ca or Dr. Laura MacDonald at Laura.MacDonald@umanitoba.ca.

The TBCEL is an opportunity to volunteer in helping develop quality interprofessional education sessions for the Rady Faculty of Health Sciences students. Additionally, those who maintain portfolios, it is an opportunity to reflect on a novel interprofessional collaboration experience.

The TBCEL pilot has been reviewed and approved by the Human Ethics Research Board, University of Manitoba.

On behalf of the planning team,

Laura MacDonald, RDH, PhD