Patient with Kaposi’s Sarcoma: Teaching students medicine management therapy
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Date
2018
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Medpharm
Abstract
Interprofessional education (IPE) is
a cornerstone in advancing health
professional education, with the aim
of improving the overall quality of
healthcare.1 The World Health Organization
(WHO) states: “Interprofessional education
occurs when two or more professions
learn about, from and with each other
to enable effective collaboration and improve health outcomes”.2 IPE
enables students to function within the broader health workforce
team, with the aim of transferring this skill into their future practice
environment, by having a shared goal to improve the quality of care
and patient outcomes.
Teamwork and interprofessional collaboration are critical to patient
safety; however, many allied health graduates often feel ill-prepared
to participate in a collaborative practice setting. There are many
barriers to the systematic integration of interprofessional education
and collaboration in pharmacy undergraduate training programmes in
South Africa. Not many South African pharmacy schools are linked to a
medical school or have regular access to teaching hospitals.
In the School of Pharmacy at the University of the Western Cape,
members of staff in Clinical Pharmacy are required to precept
pharmacy students during their clinical placements across Cape Town
health facilities. Following a patient-centred approach directed at
medicine-related needs, academic pharmacists work with patients,
their physicians and families towards a safe and effective medication
therapy plan, which is modelled on the principles of teamwork and
collaboration with students from other health disciplines.
With a case vignette, I highlight the role of faculty in the practice
environment working within a team in the provision of quality care.
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Keywords
Kaposi’s Sarcoma, Medical students, Interprofessional education (IPE), Pharmacy schools
Citation
Coetzee, R. (2018). Patient with Kaposi’s Sarcoma: Teaching students medicine management therapy. S Afr Pharm J, 85(5), 62-63.