First Contact: interprofessional education based on medical students' experiences from their nursing internship
Goal: The aim of the course “interprofessional communication and nursing” is to reflect medical students’ experiences from the nursing internship. The content of the course focuses on barriers and support of interprofessional communication as a foundation for teamwork between nursing professionals a...
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| author | Eich-Krohm, Astrid Kaufmann, Alexandra Winkler-Stuck, Kirstin Werwick, Katrin Spura, Anke Robra, Bernt-Peter |
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| description | Goal: The aim of the course “interprofessional communication and nursing” is to reflect medical students’ experiences from the nursing internship. The content of the course focuses on barriers and support of interprofessional communication as a foundation for teamwork between nursing professionals and physicians. The nursing internship is for most medical students the first contact with nursing professionals and can lead to perceptions about the other group that might hinder interprofessional teamwork and consequently harm patients. To meet the demographic challenges ahead it is important to emphasize interprofessional education in the study of medicine and better prepare future physicians for interprofessional collaboration. Method: The design of the course includes an assessment of a change in the students’ perceptions about nursing and interprofessional communication. The first class meeting presents the starting point of the assessment and visualizes students’ perceptions of nursing and medicine. The content of the following class meetings serve to enhance the students’ knowledge about nursing as a profession with its own theories, science and scholarship. In addition, all students have to write a research paper that entails to interview one nursing professional and one physician about their ideas of interprofessional communication and to compare the interviews with their own experiences from the nursing internship. To access what students learned during the course a reflective discussion takes place at the last meeting combined with an analysis of the students’ research papers. Results: The assessment of the students’ perceptions about the nursing profession and the importance of successful interprofessional communication showed a new and deeper understanding of the topic. They were able to identify barriers and support measures of interprofessional communication and their own responsibilities as part of a team.Conclusion: Interprofessional education is an important part of medical education and should be a topic from the beginning. The assessment of the course shows that it is possible and important to integrate the topic early in the curriculum. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-1b7b22f941304ef3a2ce4bb300f323502022-12-21T22:46:29ZdeuGerman Medical Science GMS Publishing HouseGMS Journal for Medical Education2366-50172016-04-01332Doc2010.3205/zma001019First Contact: interprofessional education based on medical students' experiences from their nursing internshipEich-Krohm, Astrid0Kaufmann, Alexandra1Winkler-Stuck, Kirstin2Werwick, Katrin3Spura, Anke4Robra, Bernt-Peter5Otto-von- Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Medizinische Fakultät, Institut für Sozialmedizin und Gesundheitsökonomie, Magdeburg, GermanyUniversitätsklinikum Magdeburg A. ö. R. Magdeburg, GermanyOtto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Medizinische Fakultät, Studiendekanat, Magdeburg, GermanyOtto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Medizinische Fakultät, Studiendekanat, Magdeburg, GermanyOtto-von- Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Medizinische Fakultät, Institut für Sozialmedizin und Gesundheitsökonomie, Magdeburg, GermanyOtto-von- Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Medizinische Fakultät, Institut für Sozialmedizin und Gesundheitsökonomie, Magdeburg, GermanyGoal: The aim of the course “interprofessional communication and nursing” is to reflect medical students’ experiences from the nursing internship. The content of the course focuses on barriers and support of interprofessional communication as a foundation for teamwork between nursing professionals and physicians. The nursing internship is for most medical students the first contact with nursing professionals and can lead to perceptions about the other group that might hinder interprofessional teamwork and consequently harm patients. To meet the demographic challenges ahead it is important to emphasize interprofessional education in the study of medicine and better prepare future physicians for interprofessional collaboration. Method: The design of the course includes an assessment of a change in the students’ perceptions about nursing and interprofessional communication. The first class meeting presents the starting point of the assessment and visualizes students’ perceptions of nursing and medicine. The content of the following class meetings serve to enhance the students’ knowledge about nursing as a profession with its own theories, science and scholarship. In addition, all students have to write a research paper that entails to interview one nursing professional and one physician about their ideas of interprofessional communication and to compare the interviews with their own experiences from the nursing internship. To access what students learned during the course a reflective discussion takes place at the last meeting combined with an analysis of the students’ research papers. Results: The assessment of the students’ perceptions about the nursing profession and the importance of successful interprofessional communication showed a new and deeper understanding of the topic. They were able to identify barriers and support measures of interprofessional communication and their own responsibilities as part of a team.Conclusion: Interprofessional education is an important part of medical education and should be a topic from the beginning. The assessment of the course shows that it is possible and important to integrate the topic early in the curriculum.http://www.egms.de/static/en/journals/zma/2016-33/zma001019.shtmlMedical educationphysicians-nurse relationsinterprofessional relationsmedical sociologynursing internship |
| spellingShingle | Eich-Krohm, Astrid Kaufmann, Alexandra Winkler-Stuck, Kirstin Werwick, Katrin Spura, Anke Robra, Bernt-Peter First Contact: interprofessional education based on medical students' experiences from their nursing internship GMS Journal for Medical Education Medical education physicians-nurse relations interprofessional relations medical sociology nursing internship |
| title | First Contact: interprofessional education based on medical students' experiences from their nursing internship |
| title_full | First Contact: interprofessional education based on medical students' experiences from their nursing internship |
| title_fullStr | First Contact: interprofessional education based on medical students' experiences from their nursing internship |
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| title_short | First Contact: interprofessional education based on medical students' experiences from their nursing internship |
| title_sort | first contact interprofessional education based on medical students experiences from their nursing internship |
| topic | Medical education physicians-nurse relations interprofessional relations medical sociology nursing internship |
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