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Emerging Respiratory Infection

IPE on Emerging Respiratory Infection highlights the importance of an interprofessional team approach in addressing emerging respiratory infections. It emphasizes to teams that quality patient-centered care relies on seamless collaboration and communication among healthcare team members.

This lesson combines the pedagogical strengths of team-based and case-based learning to prepare students for collaborative practice. Participants include students from MBBS (HKU), Nursing (HKU & PolyU), Pharmacy (HKU), Chinese Medicine (HKU), Social Work (HKU), Law (HKU), Engineering (HKU), and Economics (Queen Mary University of London; QMUL). These students are organized into interprofessional teams of around ten members and join IPE in a hybrid mode. A team of peer teacher or faculty tutor facilitates the implementation of learning activities.

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​Generic IPE-related Learning Outcomes

1. Appreciate the collective contribution of MBBS, Nursing, Nursing, Pharmacy, Chinese Medicine, Social Work, Law, Engineering and Economics;

2. Demonstrate mutual respect and an appreciation of the unique skills, knowledge, and competencies that each discipline brings to an interprofessional team;

3. Listen respectfully to the ideas of other disciplines to complement one’s disciplinary knowledge;

4. Provide constructive and non-judgmental feedback to other member’s ideas;

5. Respect difference and diversity among professions; 

6. Realise that interprofessional collaboration promotes creativity, motivation, and productivity;

7. Apply shared decision-making process from deliberation to choice/consensus;

8. Build consensus and negotiate respectfully/effectively, and

9. Formulate interprofessional healthcare management plan.

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​Content-related Learning Outcomes​

1. Apply skills in understanding the social background of patients

2. Apply clinical and Public Health principles in managing influenza patients

3. Demonstrate professional knowledge and skills to address Public Health control measures during the influenza endemic

4. Discuss principles of Public Health surveillance during the influenza outbreak investigation

5. Apply clinical skills in managing acute respiratory distress 

6. Identify acceptable and unacceptable collaborative practices

7. Manage the patient by integrating the expertise of diverse disciplines

8. Determine the immediate response, red/green flags in ethical and clinical practice

9. Apply the element of empathy in everyday clinical practice

10. Analyse the economic impacts of chronic illness on individuals and society 

11. Emphasise the role of Primary Health Care in managing chronic diseases.

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Participants

          MBBS  (HKU)                           - 230       

          Nursing (HKU)                         - 209

          Pharmacy (HKU)                     - 36

          Chinese Medicine (HKU)         - 21

          Social Work  (HKU)                  - 39

          Law(HKU)                                - 23

          Engineering (HKU)                   - 20

          Nursing (PolyU)                        - 233

          Economics (QMUL)                  - 285

          Total                                          - 1096

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