Qatar University Holds Second IPE Activity On Diabetes

Doha: The QU Health Interprofessional Education (IPE) Committee at Qatar University organised recently its second IPE activity, entitled Interprofessional Education Activity on Diabetes. 

Students from different healthcare programmes in Qatar University, and University of Doha for Science and Technology (UDST) participated in this activity. A total of 191 students and 24 facilitators attended the event. Professions involved in this activity were Pharmacy, Medicine, Dental Medicine, Biomedical, Nutrition and Medical Radiography.

This Interprofessional Education activity aims to introduce the health profession team members and their roles. The activity started with an Icebreaker game, followed by an activity about the epidemiology of diabetes. After that, the students worked on a case study about diabetic patient. 

This activity helped students to exchange knowledge and skills with each other and to get involved in the decision-making process while planning and implementing care.

In this IPE activity, students shared their knowledge about diabetes epidemiology globally and locally. The group then discussed the roles of the different professions involved in the care of patients with diabetes.

Myriam Jihad Eljaam, teaching assistant at the Clinical Pharmacy and Practice Department at the College of Pharmacy who was the lead facilitator, said:“We are always pleased to see students work together through the IPE activities. This year we have a different appreciation of the interaction as it comes after two years of online teaching and online IPE.”

Safa Al Haneedi, fourth Year student from College of Pharmacy, said:“As a pharmacy student, I was grateful to be part of the IPE activity, especially being face to face after so long. We had the opportunity as healthcare students to express our roles as part of the future health care team and prepare ourselves to enter the health workforce, where teamwork and collaboration are important competencies. 

“This event means a lot, where it allows us to meet our colleagues from different health colleges to promote information and knowledge exchange. It also helps develop and promote interprofessional thinking and acting and as Helen Keller said:“Alone we can do so little. Together we can do so much.” 

The Interprofessional Education programme was found to develop and facilitate interactions between health profession students from different institutions, and world-leading training synergies across health professions, equipping learners with team-based collaborative skills and emphasising interactive learning.

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