Theme: 4JJ Interprofessional education 1 |
A model of interprofessional education (IPE) at Udonthani Rehabilitation Department. | ||||||
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Interprofessional education (IPE) help to prepare readiness for collaborative work with patient who has multiple problems including rehabilitation patients.But there were no IPE curriculum for rehabilitation students in Thailand, so we tried to develop an IPE model for our undergraduated rehabilitation students.
Workplace based IPE was conducted for the fourth-year medical ,physiotherapy ,occupational therapy and nursing students from different universities when they studied concurrently at rehabilitation department. Groups of six to eight mixed students and one facilitator worked collaboratively with real patients,following by group presentation and panel discussion. Students’ satisfaction and performance were evaluated.Problems and suggestions were discussed for improvement of the consecutive session.
86 mixed students were included in four IPE sessions.No students had IPE experience, 95.35% strongly agreed that IPE increased understanding in interprofessional role and collaborative practice,100.0% agreed that IPE was suitable for rehabilitation topics,88.37% strongly agreed to continue IPE in other topics .But lower number of medical students satisfied with professional knowledge gained and nursing students showed lower level of readiness for IPE. 89.53% of students could play proper role during session.Satisfaction scores rised up when multi-professional facilitators were included,and short lecture was added at the end.Attending staffs reported no extra workload.
Workplace-based IPE with multi-professional facilitators in combination with short lectured- based learning was a satisfied IPE model for our rehabilitation students. Medical students required more professional knowledge and nursing students required more self confidence for active participation.
Workplace based IPE is a simple way to start IPE in rehabilitation medicine.