Jointly discussing care plans for real-life patients: The potential of a student-led interprofessional team meeting in undergraduate health professions education

Perspectives on Medical Education

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van Lierop, Marion¹  van Dongen, Jerôme²  Janssen, Miriam⁴  Smeets, Hester⁵  van Bokhoven, Loes³  Moser, Albine³ 

[1] Department of Family Medicine, Maastricht University;Research Centre for Community Care, Zuyd University of Applied Sciences;CAPHRI School for Public Health and Primary Care, Department of Family Medicine, Maastricht University;Department of Social Medicine, Maastricht University;Faculty of Health, Zuyd University of Applied Sciences;Research Centre for Autonomy and Participation of people with chronic illnesses, Zuyd University of Applied Sciences

关键词: Interprofessional learning;    Interprofessional education;    Interprofessional team meeting;    Problem based learning;   

DOI  :  10.1007/s40037-019-00543-6

学科分类：医学（综合）

来源: Bohn Stafleu van Loghum B.V.

【 摘 要 】

Background Interprofessional education is promoted as a means of enhancing future collaborative practice in healthcare. We developed a learning activity in which undergraduate medical, nursing and allied healthcare students practice interprofessional collaboration during a student-led interprofessional team meeting. Design and delivery During their clinical rotation at a family physician’s practice, each medical student visits a frail elderly patient and prepares a care plan for the patient. At a student-led interprofessional team meeting, medical, nursing and allied healthcare students jointly review these care plans. Subsequently, participating students reflect on their interprofessional collaboration during the team meeting, both collectively and individually. Every 4 weeks, six interprofessional team meetings take place. Each team comprises 9–10 students from various healthcare professions, and meets once. To date an average of 360 medical and 360 nursing and allied healthcare students have participated in this course annually. Evaluation Students mostly reported positive experiences, including the opportunity to learn with, from and about other healthcare professions in the course of jointly reviewing care plans, and feeling collectively responsible for the care of the patients involved. Additionally, students reported a better understanding of the contextual factors at hand. The variety of patient cases, diversity of participating health professions, and the course material need improvement. Conclusion Students from participating institutions confirmed that attending a student-led interprofessional team meeting had enabled them to learn with, from and about other health professions in an active role. The use of real-life cases and the educational design contributed to the positive outcome of this interprofessional learning activity.

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