Aim and Content

General aims:

To train health profession students in interprofessional clinical work

Content of the Course Contents:

The students establish their interprofessional teams, examine selected patients and write a treatment plan: This is then discussed with the health workers at the institution.

Learning Outcomes

After the students have completed their training in TVEPS, together with their other studies, we expect them in a greater extent to:

Knowledge

• Know about the competencies of other health care professionals and what they may contribute in patient care
• Appreciate the impact of interprofessional collaboration
• Understand the meaning of collaboration with patients and other users of the health care system

Skills

• Know how to communicate your own thoughts and assessments to collaborating health care professionals
• Able to use own competencies in collaboration with other health care professionals for the benefit of the patients and other users of the health care system
• Able to actively participate in interprofessional examinations of a patient or user of the health care system

General competencies

• Know how to communicate professional opinions and conclusions to other health care professional in a work place environment
• Able to appraise and reflect on the group dynamics within the team of which they are a member

-- Reflect on their own role in team and group processes

Course offered (semester)

Spring/Fall

Course Unit Level

Final year(s) in professional education

Department

Centre for Interprofessional Learning in Health Care / Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care

Teaching Methods

Work place learning

2 hours preparatory meeting (afternoon)

8 hour (1 work day) clinical practice

1 hour dialogue meeting

5 hours self study

Total hours: 16

Assessment methods

Formative assessment

Treatment plan

Reflection note

Grading Scale

Pass/Fail