Informa Healthcare and the Journal of Interprofessional Care are proud to announce the winner of the Baldwin Award for the best paper published in the Journal in 2009:
“Interprofessional Learning in the Trenches: Fostering Collective Capability”, by Hassan Soubhi, Nicole Rege Colet, John H.V. Gilbert, Paule Lebel, Robert L. Thivierge, Catherine Hudon, and Martin Fortin.

The winning paper was among a short list of excellent papers including:

• A theoretical article describing an evaluation for assessing community-based clinical instruction and IPE (by L. Trojan and colleagues titled: Evaluation Framework for a Multi-Site Practice Based IPE)
• A thoughtful paper that uses the notion of a multi-national Europe as a metaphor for IP Collaboration (by Lorenz, titled: Europe, the Profession and IPE)

The winning paper demonstrates how knowing and doing can creatively interface through collective activity. This brief and elegant paper in many ways provides a roadmap for the evolving field of interprofessional practice and offers a well-argued framework for research activity in the field. Readers from a wide range of disciplines will find this paper accessible and relevant to their practice.