Abstract

The proposed project aims at providing international prospective of interprofessional education (IPE) in the curriculum of our one-unit summer elective IPE course – PHAR 2018 “Inter-professional Learning for Medication Safety”, which is designated for all year 2 or above Health Sciences and Social Work students about interprofessional collaboration for geriatric care and medication safety.

The course will focus on discussing elderly’s health and drug-related problems as an interprofessional healthcare team to equip our students to be global citizens and be ready for a rapidly changing health service environment in both clinical and community settings not only locally but also globally. As a result, we will embed internationalized elements in the course to achieve and champion the course’s objective in Summer 2021.

The internationalized components include a sharing session by an IPE teacher from an overseas institution who will share the interprofessional collaboration for geriatric patients in community and clinical setting in his/her home country. The other components include IPE sharing session from overseas students and CUHK students who enrolled the course in Summer 2020. There will be mutual learning opportunities between CUHK and overseas students for working on simulated IPE case studies. In addition, enrolled students will learn about the communication approach between different health professions in local and overseas settings.

The activities with overseas teachers and students will be conducted via online networking software such as Zoom Meeting. We hope that this project will benefit the development of IPE and facilitate internationalization in CUHK.