Implementing an interprofessional education programme in Lebanon: overcoming challenges

Autor:	Maya Bassil, Nadine Zeeni, Maha Habre, Mona Haidar Haidar, Soumana C. Nasser, Anna Farra, Rony M. Zeenny, Nadia Asmar, Aline Milane, Nancy Hoffart
Rok vydání:	2018
Předmět:	Medical education Social work business.industry Political science Health care Workforce Health education Pharmacy General Medicine Interprofessional education business Curriculum Socioeconomic status
Zdroj:	Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal. 24:914-921
ISSN:	1687-1634 1020-3397
Popis:	Background: The Lebanese American University has a well-functioning inter-professional education (IPE) programme; this is a fundamental pedagogical approach in healthcare education in which students from different professions learn together, ultimately leading to improving the skills of the health care workforce and thus improving patient outcomes. The programme includes nursing, nutrition, medicine, pharmacy and social work students, and has now been running for 6 years. Aims: This paper aims at describing the implementation of an IPE programme in Lebanon by focusing on how to overcome the main challenges. Methods: We describe our experience using the categories of challenges developed by Sunguya et al. (2014), where they analysed published reports of IPE programmes in developed countries. We identified three additional challenges that might be relevant throughout the Middle East/North Africa (MENA) region or in countries with similar socioeconomic characteristics.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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