Interprofessional Clinical Training: Learners and students are to be even better prepared for future cooperation.

Health care in Switzerland takes place in a complex health care system in which different professional groups are involved. Due to demographic developments, the increase in chronic diseases and increasingly complex treatment methods, interdisciplinary and interprofessional cooperation in medicine is becoming more and more important. Accordingly, the knowledge of and about neighbouring disciplines and professions is also important. This was the background to the development of ZIPAS: learners and students should be even better prepared for future cooperation. Our goals ZIPAS aims to improve patient care, train interprofessional competencies in trainees and raise awareness of the relevance of interprofessional training and cooperation. ZIPAS is the first interprofessional clinical training station in Switzerland. Due to the theoretically sound and scientifically extensively evaluated concept, ZIPAS can be rapidly expanded to other medical fields, departments and hospitals and therefore offers valuable potential for dissemination. Successful pilot projects After a one-year feasibility and planning phase, the first pilot projects were carried out in autumn 2018 at the Department of Neurology at the University Hospital Zurich. Two ZIPAS test runs took place, each with six to eight students and learners for four weeks. Students from the fields of nursing, medicine, physiotherapy and occupational therapy as well as trainee health professionals were involved. They were supervised by experienced nurses, senior doctors and therapists. 

Presenter: Prof. Marion Huber, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, ZIPAS:  Interprofessional clinical training ward

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