PEPAs Community of Practice (CoP) is a space where all PEPA participants and PEPA mentors come together to share their experience and learning in palliative care.
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CoPs provide an environment in which professionals can share their practice experiences, develop and discuss areas of interests and build a sense of community (2).
A community of practice was a term first coined by Etienne Wenger, an education practitioner and academic, who described CoP as “Groups of people who share a passion for something that they know how to do and who interact regularly to learn how to do it better”. The successful CoP requires members to be participatory and is essentially led by its members. It is the member’s responsibility to ensure that the CoP stays relevant, engaging and offers value to the domain of interest (3).
CoPs were initially developed to exchange information and knowledge but more recently are being used as tools to improve clinical and public health practice and to facilitate the implementation of evidence-based practice (2).
In the healthcare field, CoPs have been promoted as a tool to (4):
In developing a CoP, Wegner and colleagues identified three key elements to be included (5,6):
For more information about the PEPA CoP Terms of Reference (ToR) click the link at the top of this page
As a PEPA participant completes a placement activity their activity overview (PEPA Completion Form 3 – Workplace Activity Report) it will be written to form a Blog by the PEPA Manager in their state and territory and loaded to the PEPA Placement site for you to comment on later.