Change in physiotherapy students' attitudes towards cooperation in an interdisciplinary medical team
Journal Title: Polish Journal of Public Health - Year 2010, Vol 120, Issue 1
Abstract
[b]Introduction[/b]. Effective collaboration within a medical team is playing an increasingly important role in ensuring a high level of service in health care. Students of medical degree programs perceive other medicine-related professionals in a predetermined, frequently stereotypical manner from the very beginning of their university education. University education, instead of verifying the image, reinforces it. [b]Aim[/b]. The objective of this study was to analyze the participants’ perceptions of cooperation in an interdisciplinary medical team, and to compare the perception of this cooperation among firstand third-year students at medical universities (MS), universities of physical education (PE), and other university-level schools (OU). [b]Material and methods[/b]. The study involved 1145 students from 11 Polish university-level schools of different educational orientations. The same students were surveyed voluntarily on two occasions: during their first and third year of studies. The research tool was an anonymous standardised questionnaire designed by the authors (88 questions). The statistical analysis (STATISTICA 9.0) was conducted using the non-parametric chi-square (χ2) test (p<0.05). [b]Results[/b]. The students claimed significantly more frequently (p<0.001) during the third year of their studies that the professional status of the physiotherapist was equal to that of the physician. The majority of the students declared that the physiotherapist should collaborate with the physician as a partner, with the university education not influencing the students’ opinions in this regard. [b]Conclusions[/b]. It is necessary to complement the curricula of Polish medicine-related universities with courses serving the development of future interdisciplinary relations. The interdisciplinary training curriculum should be adapted to the needs and potentialities of individual university-level schools and degree programmes.
Authors and Affiliations
Joanna Gotlib, Dariusz Białoszewski , Anna Cabak, Katarzyna Barczyk, Aleksandra Bauer, Wojciech Kułak, Piotr Majcher, Olga Nowotny-Czupryna, Maciej Płaszewski, Janusz Sierdziński
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