Mrs Chen Yang Foo Oi Telemedicine Centre, 2/F
William MW Mong Block
21 Sassoon Road
Pokfulam
Hong Kong

Perspectives on Interprofessional Learning in the Healthcare Professions

Patients want their healthcare professionals to interact and engage with each other in a collaborative and cooperative fashion in the hope of getting the best care possible. Interprofessional learning has been advocated as one such means to improve efficiency and quality of care. How do doctors, nurses, pharmacists, psychologists, social workers, physiotherapists, dentists and others on a healthcare team learn to work together? What is the nature of such collaborative learning? How effective has it been? How can the learning be facilitated at different levels of education? This forum will draw on the expertise and experience of speakers from a cross section of disciplines to explore these questions and to illuminate the possibilities and pitfalls of inter-professional learning in Hong Kong.

Programme Rundown

09.30 – 09.45
Registration

09.45 – 09.55
Opening remarks
Professor CS Lau, Director, IMHSE, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong
Certificate Presentation Ceremony – “Certificate in Medical and Health Sciences Education”

09.55 – 10.45
Plenary sessions

09.55 – 10.20
“Cross Disciplinary Education – The Patient-care Project in Undergraduate Medicine and Nursing”
Professor Richard Fielding, School of Public Health, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

10.20 – 10.45
"Blurring Boundaries and Crossing Borders in Healthcare Education and Research: A View from Social Sciences”
Dr Susan Bridges, Faculty of Dentistry, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

10.45 – 11.00
Tea/ Coffee break

11.00 – 11.25
“Interprofessional Collaboration Among Allied Health Professions in the Undergraduate Curriculum”
Dr Grace Szeto, Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

11.25 – 11.50
“Perspective from the Workplace: Interprofessional Collaboration in a Primary Care Mental Health Initiative”
Dr Daniel Chu, Family Medicine & Primary Healthcare Service, Hong Kong East Cluster, Hospital Authority, Hong Kong

11.50 – 12.20
Panel discussion

11.50 – 12.20
Panel Discussion – Question & Answer
Moderator: Dr Angela Leung, School of Nursing, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

12.20 – 12.30
Closing remarks
Dr Julie Chen, IMHSE and Department of Family Medicine and Primary Care, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong