Section outline

  • The European Curriculum for Specialists in Community-Based Interprofessional Teams (CBIT) for person-centred care is the main outcome of the TEAMCARE project. It is meant to play a reference role for any VET or HE designer targeting this profile in any EU country, so it has been kept general, modular and adaptable to different national contexts and rules.

    It is your starting point of the whole design process.

    • What the Curriculum is made of

      The final release comprises 59 Learning Outcomes (LOs) grouped into 24 Units of Learning Outcomes (UoLs), and organized into 6 Modules. Each LO is aligned with the core competences identified through the project’s Integrated Framework of Competences (IFC), and is described along three dimensions: Knowledge, Skills and Attitudes, which later inform the choice of teaching and assessment strategies.

      Module Focus
      A Interprofessional Teamwork
      B Interprofessional Communication, Roles and Professional Conduct
      C Shared Vision and Approach to Healthcare
      D Digital Health
      E Planning and Coordination of Integrated Care Services
      F Preliminary / Baseline Learning Outcomes

      Modules from A to E can each be run and certified independently, while Module F is preliminary and mandatory as a prerequisite.

      Thanks to the TEAMCARE approach to micro-credentials, all modules can be run and certified independently, except for Module F which is mandatory and is a prerequisite to approach all the others.

      Target

      The TEAMCARE Curriculum is designed to award a specialization at EQF6 level, addressing Social and Health Care Professionals with at least a first degree.

      Students workload and ECTS

      The TEAMCARE Curriculum complies with the European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (ECTS). In order to guarantee flexibility in the identification of students workload, two main approaches have been identified:

      The COMPREHENSIVE version of the Curriculum, standard and highly recommended, awards between 20 to 40 ECTS; in this version all of the 59 LOs are mandatory.

      The ESSENTIALS version of the Curriculum, which focuses on the essentials elements of the training, reducing the range of ECTS to be awarded between 15 and 30. This option adjusts credits values and includes optional LOs, adapting training strategies in the course localization, thus reducing students effort.

      Whenever a course is based on the TEAMCARE Curriculum, it is highly recommended for the final attendance certificate to indicate whether the COMPREHENSIVE or ESSENTIALS version is adopted.

      Modules flexibility

      To enable a greater flexibility in micro-credentials creation and increase as much as possible the level of adaptability, TEAMCARE Curriculum allows the possibility to localize a course rearranging LOs in different modules from the standard six ones. However, such customisation must still comply with the ECTS credit ranges set for the COMPREHENSIVE and ESSENTIALS versions. This means that in the COMPREHENSIVE version, all LOs are compulsory even if grouped differently, while in the ESSENTIALS version, only the optional LOs indicated in the ECTS table may be excluded.

      The image below simplifies the options at your disposal.

      TEAMCARE Curriculum

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      COMPREHENSIVE VERSION

      20–40 ECTS

      6 Modules
      or
      optional free-modules implementation

      ESSENTIALS VERSION

      15–30 ECTS

      6 Modules
      or
      optional free-modules implementation

      COMPREHENSIVE and ESSENTIALS are alternative versions of the Curriculum: you choose one, not both. Within either, the standard 6 Modules or a free-modules implementation is optional.

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