InterProfessional Training

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Inter-Professional Training

• Joseph Sung

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Facts

• Separate teaching for medical, nursing, public
  health and pharmacy student
• By tradition, very little interactions in our
  practice
• Shortage of manpower

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Medicine
Nursing
Pharmacy
Public Health
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Medicine
Nursing
Pharmacy
Better patient care Reduce workload of
doctors Improve professionalism of nurses
Public Health
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Medicine
Nursing
Pharmacy
Public Health
Control of infectious disease outbreak Disease
prevention and Health protection Improve image of
public health
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Medicine
Nursing
Pharmacy
Public Health
Logical prescription Less mishap Pharmacist are
no longer dispensors
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What are the obstacles?

• Gaps between knowledge between these groups
• Hospital work are too busy
• Participation of pharmacy in prescription is
  small
• Public health is seen as less challenging

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Gaps in knowledge

• Modify curriculum of nursing, public health and
  pharmacy?
• Combine lectures
• Open up Grand round, symposium and workshops?

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Hospital work too busy

• Complicated issue which involves resources and
  politics

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Participation of pharmacist

• Need to change the system

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Public health is less challenging

• Since SARS (and the recruitment of SG), things
  are changing

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Should we consider?

• Combined lecture to let people mingle?
• Joint Grand Rounds?
• Joint projects (SSM) between Schools?