By

Wiwik Kusumawati

WHY IPE???
Patient safety (Institute of Medicine, USA

2001)
Most errors are due to poor communication
and collaboration among health
professionals
This means - we are putting patients at risk
by not collaborating better!
Research shows that inter professional
education can improve IP collaboration and
improve patient outcomes (Barr 2005,
Reeves 2008)

WHY IPE???
Much patient care is complex
Improved health outcomes

usually lie outside the scope of

any one practitioner. (Headrick et
al. 1998)

Introduction
Integration of education and practice
Demand relationship between health

professionals and both goverment

and patient
Complexity of patient problems

Introduction
IPE
North America and Europe (40 years

ago)
WHO (1998)

Improving Health requires

Team-work
Team Training during Professional

training?
Training during / at workplace?
Mostly No!!

Goal of MPE
Improved quality of care
Increased patient satisfaction
Improved working relationships
integrated learning practice
Economic efficiency
Greater centralised control

.....goal of IPE(WHO)
1. Develop the ability to share knowledge and skills

collaboratively
2. Enable students to become competent in
teamwork
3. Decompatementalise curricula
4. Integrate new skill adn area of knowledges
5. Ease interprofessional communication
6. Generate new roles
7. Promote interprofessional research
8. Improve understanding and cooperation between
educational ans researc institutions
9. Permit collective consideration of resource
allocation according to need
10.Ensure consistency in curriculum design

Multi-professional
education
The educational experience shared

by members of different health

professions and
Achieved by the process in which
a group of students/ workers with
different educational backgrounds
learn together during certain
periods of their education, with
interaction as an important goal

What is Inter-Professional
Education?
Occasions when two or more

Professionals learn from each

other and about each other in
order to cultivate collaboration
and professional insights (Barr,
2001)

DIMENSION OF MPE
1. Curriculum goals
2. Learning contexts
3. MPE strategies

The key to all of the issues

surrounding IPE is what does it
do for patients and the public?
How does it improve patient
care?

What about the content of

IPE?
1. Epidemiology
2. Health promotion
3. Ethics
4. Critical apprisal skills
5. Clinical skills
6. Decision making
7. Care planing
8. Communication

What about the learning

method?
PBL (the first choice)
Exchange based learning
Action based learning
Observation based learning
Simulation based learning
Practice based
E-learning
Blended learning
Received or didactic learning

Important notes
Principle of adult learning
Assigning leadership rather than

individual student
Different profession
Different learning style

PREPARING OF MPE SESSION

Common content
Specialist content
Comparative content (the bridge)

Recurrent contact model

medicine

Common
themes

nursing

PHASES OF MPE
INTEGRATION
1. Isolationism
2. Acknowledgement
3. Content exchange
4. Teacher exchange
5. Shared premises
6. Joint teaching
7. Integrated activity
8. Curricular overhaul
9. Organisational blending
10.Cultural integration

Barrier to implement MPE

Problems in making Time-table
Different working practices and

academic policies in different Health

Care Professionals
Variation in learners ages
Fear of loss of identities
The power of the medical profession
Resistance to change

MPE The Continuum

SUMMARY/CONCLUSION
MPE/ IPE Contributes to:
1.Development of own professional

role
2.Better understanding of different
professionals roles
3.Better interaction and
communication between different
professionals
4.Improved patient / health care

 Journal of Interprofessional Care