Interprofessional Education is one of the most important practices in social care and medicine schools since it advocates for productive collaborations among health workers to ensure the provision of quality healthcare services. Some of the major areas that Interprofessional Education focuses on during the learning process are discipline and ethics in the workstation. The main of subjecting medicine and public health students to interprofessional education is to enable them to acquire skills on how to improve the quality of health outcomes.
One of the most effective approaches to ensuring the success of Interprofessional Education is by creating inclusive professional learning activities in such institutions. This can be implemented effectively by creating and facilitating various student groups in which students can appropriately engage. Organizing sensitization events for the students is also one of the major ways of ensuring that health science students are exposed to the required competencies and skills for interprofessional education. Interdisciplinary events are some of the major events that can help provide the students with the appropriate disciplinary levels required of a healthcare practitioner in the sector.
The main interdisciplinary event that the schools can organize to enhance quality interprofessional education is by educating the students on how to utilize the resources in a healthcare institution. This will enable them to understand how they can share the available resources appropriately without discriminating against other departments. Such events will enable the student to know that utilizing the resources meant for other departments will not only affect that particular department but will also cripple the operations within the organization leading to poor healthcare outcomes. Other interdisciplinary events that can be organized by the school is by organizing for seminars and talks from various pioneers and scholars in the field of healthcare to advise them on matters such as ethical practices and conflict resolution.
Reference
van Diggele, C., Roberts, C., Burgess, A., & Mellis, C. (2020). Interprofessional education: tips for design and implementation. BMC Medical Education, 20(S2). Web.