Carole Orchard BSN, MEd, EdD

Dr. Orchard is currently Professor in the Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing and the former Coordinator of Interprofessional Health Education & Research at the University of Western Ontario. Her research focuses on interprofessional patient-centred collaborative practice.
Dr. Orchard and her colleagues have developed several measurement instruments: Interprofessional Socialization & Valuing Scale (ISVS) and the Assessment of Interprofessional Team Collaboration Scale-II (AITCS-II), Interprofessional Collaborative Leadership Scale (ICLS), and Patients with Diabetes Ownership of their Self-Care Scale (PD-SCOS). She has recently published revisions to the AITCS with a new instrument specifically for assessing collaboration in IP students during group learning.