Interprofessional collaboration - Områdeemne innen studieområde medisin og helse

This is a course within study area medicine and health. This course aims to give students from different health professions insight into what it means to interact both interdisciplinary, interprofessional, cross-sectoral and across businesses. In addition, the course provides students with a practical and theoretical basis for engaging in professional collaboration and initiating such collaboration.

To achieve this, the students, who come from different study programs, must learn about, from and with each other. In this course, students will work with i interprofessional collaboration in different contexts.

The focus is on interprofessional collaboration in general, in addition can topics like communication, ethics, legislation, equal services, health and social system and health policy, inclusion and non-discrimination including Sami peoples status as indigenous peoples, children and young people, risk assessment, improvement knowledge, innovation and digital cooperation be included.

The course is equal MH2001.

The learning outcomes cover several topics within all the general learning outcomes in §2 of the Regulations for a common framework for Health and Social Studies (https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2017 -09-06-1353), at the level needed to participate in interprofessional collaboration.

Knowledge: The student:

• Knows what collaboration in the health care service entails, including interdisciplinary, interprofessional and cross-sectoral collaboration.
• Knows how interprofessional collaboration can strengthen interaction with users, patients and relatives.
• Knows about health and social policy, can update their knowledge of the health and welfare system, laws, regulations and guidelines and apply them in interprofessional collaboration.
• Knows about inclusion, gender equality and non-discrimination measures, and has knowledge of how interprofessional collaboration can help ensure equal services for all groups in society.
• Knows how interprofessional collaboration can be used in innovative thinking and innovation processes that can be used in the health service.
• Knows about methods for assessing the risk of adverse events and how this can be followed up in a systematic way in interprofessional collaboration.

Skills: The student:

• Can participate in interprofessional collaboration that requires acquiring new knowledge and can make professional judgments, decisions and actions in line with knowledge-based practice, and can document and disseminate this.
• Can apply their own professional competence to knowledge sharing, in equal interaction with other professional practitioners including cross-professional mapping of patient/user.
• Can identify, reflect on and deal with ethical issues which may arise in their professional work in general, and in interprofessional collaboration in particular.
• Can contribute to service innovation and has knowledge of systematic and quality-enhancing work processes in multidisciplinary teams.

General competence: The student:

• Is aware of links between health, education, work and living conditions, and how such knowledge can be used in interprofessional collaboration.
• Can reflect upon their own and other professions' role in interprofessional interaction / interprofessional teams.

The teaching is divided into several blocks (seminars) like TverrPrask, TverrSam, Innovation Camp and forbedringsarbeid. The students register in the autumn semester, however all teaching except TverrPraks is carried out in the spring semester.

There are two main activities with different learning styles:

a) Schedule compulsory teaching hours/days in-person om campus for all students

b) Student-driven compulsory assignments in multidisciplinary groups that are not scheduled.

The work in the groups is led by the students themselves with tutoring from student assistans and lectures.

Please note that mandatory activities will start prior to the registration deadline.