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Multiprofessional Medical Education

Multiprofessional Medical Education. Round Table 8th Nordic Conference for University Hospitals and Faculty Deans August 2004,Turku, Finland. Participants. Pekka Kääpä , prof., Medical Education Research and Development Centre, Turku Kristjan Erlendsson , Vice Dean, Reykjavik

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Multiprofessional Medical Education

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  1. Multiprofessional Medical Education Round Table 8th Nordic Conference for University Hospitals and Faculty Deans August 2004,Turku, Finland

  2. Participants • Pekka Kääpä, prof., Medical Education Research and Development Centre, Turku • Kristjan Erlendsson, Vice Dean, Reykjavik • Stein A. Evensen, Dean, Oslo • Ralf Peter Hemmingsen, Dean, Copenhagen • Anna Kiesling, Head, Center for Clinical Education, Stockholm

  3. Definitions • Multiprofessional education: • two or more professions learn side by side for whatever reason • Interprofessional education: • two or more professions learn from and about each other to improve collaboration and the quality of care (CAIPE 1997)

  4. Turku Objectives • Multiprofessional education should start early in the medical undergraduate curriculum • This form of education should form a continuum throughout the basic medical education and continuing professional development • Development of the own professional role • Better understanding of different professional roles and the role of patients • Better interaction and communication between different professionals • Improved patient care

  5. Turku Initiatives (core) • Year 1: Physiology of Circulation and Respiration • Together with nursing students • Small, mixed group teaching (4 hours/student) • ECG, blood pressure measurement, heart and lung auscultation • organized in 3 years • improves communication and interaction skills

  6. CARDIOVASCULAR TRACK – SPECIAL STUDY MODULES • Year 2: Interprofessional teamwork and prevention of circulatory disturbance • 1.5 ECTS • Together with nursing students • PBL learning tutorials • Year 3: Prevention of Cardiovascular Problems in Children • Lectures, small group teaching • Practical exercise with school children • improved understanding of the professional roles

  7. Other Electives • Year 3: Interprofessional Approach to Planning of Clinical Patient Care: • 1.5 ECTS • In cooperation with students of nursing science • Lectures • Seminars based on patient cases

  8. ASKLEPIOS- programme • Man, Health and Culture – Programme • 15 ECTS • A joint programme for medical and humanist students • Lectures, seminars, projectwork • The Frontiers of Health Care • Medicine and Cultural Challenges • Healing and Art • Health and Life Cycle

  9. Future • Clinical courses: core and electives • Interprofessional Approach to Pain in the Patients • In cooperation with students of nursing science • Interprofessional education track

  10. Barriers to effective interprofessional medical education • Timetabling problems • Different working practices and academic policies in different health care professions • Institutional constrains • Variation in learner´s ages, educational levels and experiences • The power of the medical profession • The effects of historical rivalries between professions; fear of possible loss of identities and resistance to change

  11. Goals of interprofessional medical education • Improvement of patient care • Better understanding of different professional roles • Development of the own professional role • Better communication between different professionals • More efficient teamworking • Better understanding of the role of the patient • Better awareness of the ethical aspects in health care

  12. Steps to multiprofessional learning • Each profession organizes own separate teaching • Awareness of other programmes, no contact • Consultation between teachers • Teaching related to work of other professions included • Time tabling to allow same learning experiences • Joint teaching in part • Multiprofessional consideration of topics in sessions • Multi- and uni-professional teaching side-by-side • Multiprofessional approach, own perspective • Own perspective and that of the other professions

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