Interprofessional Education and Collaboration between Pharmacy Technician Students and University College Copenhagen Students

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Title: Interprofessional Education and Collaboration between Pharmacy Technician Students and University College Copenhagen Students
Authors: Tina Bolvig, Jytte Muszynski, Lise Rølmer Nissen, Mette Skjøtt, Bente Annie Sørine Andersen, Sofie Brøndal Grünfeld, Mira El-Souri, Rikke Nørgaard Hansen, Charlotte Verner Rossing
Background information
Since 2019, the Danish College of Pharmacy Technicians (CPT) has collaborated with University College Copenhagen (UCC) on a course where the students cooperate interprofessionally.

In the course, the University College Copenhagen students (UCCS) were presented with a challenge concerning a specific patient group at the community pharmacy and they should develop an idea for an interprofessional intervention to solve the challenge. The UCCS received feedback on their ideas from students and teachers from the CPT at a sparring session.
Purpose
The purpose of this study is to identify the kind of learning the students from various educations acquire when they engage in an interprofessional course to discuss and solve health care challenges.
Method
Electronic questionnaires were sent to UCCS and pharmacy technician students (PTS). Data from the questionnaires was analysed quantitatively in Excel and qualitatively in NVivo version 13. The results were presented and discussed at a workshop where teachers from the CPT and the UCC shared their reflections about the students’ learning from the sparring session.
Results
Five (38%) UCCS and 27 PTS (63%) answered the questionnaires. The PTS scored 5.4 and the UCCS scored 6.0 on average on a scale from 0-10, where 10 is the highest, on the question: “How much did the sparring session contribute to your learning about interprofessional collaboration?”.

The following themes were found from students’ qualitative answers of the questionnaires:
- The PTS found it useful to see their role and practice from another perspective
- Knowing each other’s strengths and competencies is important
- Developing holistic solutions to the presented challenge was complex
- Additional interprofessional collaborations is useful
- A collaboration across sectors can be beneficial for patients in transition between health care sectors

The following themes were found from the workshop with teachers:
- The teachers are satisfied with the knowledge obtained by the students
- The PTS’ professional identity was boosted in the process
- The PTS now see patients from other perspectives
- The PTS have a better understanding of patients in transition between sectors
- UCCS acknowledged that they will face medicine-related challenges when working with patients
Conclusion
PTS and UCCS learned how important interprofessional collaboration is and that it is beneficial to meet each other during their educations. They learned about their own competencies and those of
other professions and how they can complement each other in patient care.
Translated title of the contributionTværprofessionel uddannelse og samarbejde mellem pharmakonom studerende og 5. semester studerende på SUND, KP
Original languageEnglish
Publication date11 Feb 2023
Publication statusPublished - 11 Feb 2023
EventPharmaceutical Care Network Europe: Pharmacies' new roles in pharmaceutical care: bridging research and practice - Denmark, Hillerød, Denmark
Duration: 8 Feb 202311 Feb 2023
Conference number: 13
https://www.pcne.org/conference/32/13th-working-conference-2023

Conference

ConferencePharmaceutical Care Network Europe
Number13
LocationDenmark
Country/TerritoryDenmark
CityHillerød
Period08/02/2311/02/23
OtherPharmaceutical Care is the pharmacist's contribution to the care of individuals, in order to optimize medicines use and improve health outcomes
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Keywords

  • health, nutrition and quality of life

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