IMPRODATE
(Improve Your Knowledge of Interprofessional Education Through Debate)
SCOME CIMSA UPH
Various problems are currently occurring in the realm of health workers. Taking a doctor's mistake in deciding the steps to treat the patient due to miscommunication between fellow health workers, or the negligence of pharmacists caused by a doctor's handwriting that was difficult to read, as an example. So, what is the right solution to solve this problem?
Interprofessional Education (IPE) was first initiated by the World Health Organization (WHO) as a strategy to increase collaboration between different health workers to be able to solve a problem holistically as an attempt to achieve quality health service outcomes.
Interprofessional Education existed about 30 years ago and has been implemented in several universities in developed countries. The purpose of IPE is to train the medical students to get to know the roles of other health professionals in hopes that all health students can collaborate well during the patient care process. However, Indonesia is a country that is relatively new to knowing and implementing IPE. Nonetheless, this system has been implemented by several major universities, for example: Universitas Pelita Harapan.
On February 28th, 2021, SCOME CIMSA UPH held an event with the theme Interprofessional Education (IPE) called IMPRODATE, which stands for Improve Your Knowledge of Interprofessional Education Through Debate. This event consists of a webinar presented by dr. Daniel Richard Kambey who is an expert in medical collaboration and a debate competition for health professional students, specifically students from the faculty of and faculty of nursing.
The debate session argued regarding the importance of IPE in the realm of health professionals and to take an active role as well as think critically to improve the quality of health professional students. This event also aims to increase awareness towards IPE to create better cooperation between different health professions in the future as there are still some medical students who are not ready to deal with IPE, due to their lack knowledge about the importance of collaborative practice in the medical field. In addition to that, participants seemed enthusiastic about participating in this event which was reflected by the many inputs and questions regarding the IPE program.
The event ended with prize awards to the winners of the IPE debate competition. Hopefully, this activity can develop health service-based students to think critically and increase awareness about the quality and the importance of broadening cooperation between fellow health professionals.
