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What is

a Collaborative Learning Experience?

Independent Collaborative Learning Experiences allow ANZCAP members to autonomously record, self evaluate and self-reflect to engage with professional peers (collaborators) to document evaluation, feedback and guided reflection on a variety of significant professional experiences.

Compared to other categories of learning experiences Independent Learning Experiences do not require collaboration with peers for feedback or for the professional experience to be peer reviewed.

Independent This type of learning experience requires the direct involvement of a collaborator. See below for details on collaborators.

Collaborative Learning Experiences can contribute towards recognition of professional practice in a variety of ways by inclusion in both recognition portfolios and custom portfolios.

Types of

Collaborative Learning Experiences

There are 11 14 different types of Independent Collaborative Learning Experiences that can be used to document a broad variety of professional experiences. Please see the list below for the names and definitions of each type of Independent Collaborative Learning Experience.

Collaborative Learning Experience Workflow

All Independent Collaborative Learning Experiences involved involve 3 steps for completion:

; Prepare, Observe & Reflect.

Tip*Pharmacists may have engaged in discussion with professional peers, mentors or managers to encourage reflective practice. However, the Independent Learning Experience digital tool should be completed by the pharmacist without collaborationPlease refer to the individual article for each type of LX for more details instructions on the process for each type of LX.

Each type of Independent Collaborative Learning Experience has it’s own digital tool on the AZCAP platform that will automatically guide ANZCAP members through each step of the process. Alternatively pharmacists may use a comparative workplace based assessment tool from their own workplace or organisation and upload it to the ANZCAP digital platform where they can then confirm completion of an Independent a Collaborative Learning Experience.

Who can be a collaborator?

The Collaborator must ensure that they have the required expertise and scope of practice to confidently provide the candidate with feedback on the content of the collaborative learning experience.

The Collaborator can be from a range of multidisciplinary qualifications (pharmacy, medical, nursing).

The collaborator must ensure that they have directly observed the candidate completing the learning experience to ensure that they are able to accurately complete in the evaluation and feedback. If this is not possible (e.g. if the experience is longitudinal or private in nature) then the collaborator should have engaged in regular debrief sessions throughout or at the conclusion of the learning experience.

National Competency Standards Framework for Pharmacists in Australia

Each type of Independent Collaborative Learning Experience has been mapped to the relevant domains within the National Competency Standards Framework for Pharmacists in Australia 2016.

Competence Standards for Pharmacists in Aotearoa New Zealand Pharmacists

Each type of Collaborative Learning Experience has been mapped to the relevant domains within the Competence Standards for Pharmacists in Aotearoa New Zealand Pharmacists, 2023.

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