1. What part of the topic made you curious about?
  The team is really curious about the lecture on Simulation-Enhanced Interprofessional Education.  We believe that more than just learning about medical conditions,  interventions, and other rehabilitation techniques that solely focus on our own profession, part of being a medical professional is also to have the ability of being able to effectively communicate and interact with the rest of the Rehabilitation team. We also believe that it is undeniably empowering to connect with other people in the field of rehabilitation sciences because healthcare is a group dynamic that aims to simulate a healthy framework amongst professionals. Apart from this, Simulation-Enhanced Interprofessional Education is an interesting topic for us to tackle because on a larger scale, it could help us have effective teamwork in the future. We are curious on how this course will approach and develop our skills in order for us to achieve optimum output and competency in delivering our services to others. 

We also realized that at the core of every interprofessional activity is the willpower to become more responsible healthcare professionals in the future. This is why we are also curious on how our values and experiences will shape us into becoming the future therapists we will be. By engaging in diverse and structured simulations, as individuals, we could go beyond the confines of our comfort zone to expand our network of working relationships. More importantly, collaborating as a team in an environment that replicates the healthcare system would allow us to learn more about each other’s profession and equip us with teamwork related competencies in preparation for our internship and in our practice as Physical Therapists, Occupational Therapists, Speech Language Pathologists and Sports Science Therapists in the near future. 

  In the future, knowledge of this lecture will be useful in helping us meet our goals as future Physical Therapists, Occupational Therapists, Speech Language Pathologists and Sports Science Therapists. It aids us in the chance to effectively communicate and collaborate with future professionals in the field and to expose ourselves to the necessity of teamwork and cooperation. 

 

Apart from interconnection, we can apply this curiosity by beginning to collaborate with our colleagues in the present times and learning to be flexible with our time, efforts, and ideas. We can start by listening to each other’s perspectives and working together to ensure that we complete the tasks set out for us. In the future, we realized that we will be the same people working together and it is vital that we develop healthy group dynamics to ensure the quality of life and well-being of our patients. Communication on the goals for our future patients is also a must in interprofessional collaboration to avoid an overlap or a difference in the said goals per profession. As future healthcare professionals, our goals for the patient must be in line with each other’s field. As mentioned earlier, working together with people from different fields entails a team effort, which means that in the future, we should work together towards achieving one goal: to ensure optimal health and well-being of our future patients.

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I honestly didn’t think I’d spend my time watching my batchmates’ videos given our workload but after watching a random person’s video, I couldn’t stop myself from watching more (lol). I spent almost an hour watching others’ intro videos and it was a fun experience virtually meeting my future colleagues. I’m also thankful that I watched my groupmates’ videos before our first check-in session since this helped me know more about them. ☺︎

I’ve actually learned about Sikolohiyang Pilipino back in senior high school but only learned right now the importance of this theory in our profession. We need to have all these Filipino values when seeing a patient to provide the best kind of services. Aside from these, we need to provide contexts where our patients can have these values. After listening to the lecture, I realized how important the value of pakikitungo and it’s something that I should continue to work on. This is the way we bring ourselves to the patient and will determine whether or not we seek services from the patient. For me to avoid making insensitive remarks, I need to continue to educate myself on the different cultures and be empathetic. Before saying anything else, I must think of the person’s feelings. If in the case I end up saying something that is insensitive, I must apologize immediately and learn from that mistake. This does not go only for my patients for anyone who I talk to for that matter. Our words alone can do so much to a person which is why we need to be extremely mindful of our actions.

 

For the CLL #2, I felt like our group dynamics really improved a lot since we were able to accomplish the task quickly without compromising its quality. I think that the zoom call really helped us in the process of making the activity. 

The learnings in this activity showed the importance of having empathy and cultural sensitivity when providing patient-centered care. In the future, we would encounter different clients with different values and beliefs. As early as applying cultural sensitivity now when interacting with peers is important in order to understand the views and beliefs of different cultures. We know that culture impacts how a person decides on a certain matter, so it is important to take into consideration what the patient would want to happen in intervention (e.g. patient’s culture believes in the use of traditional medicine, etc.) and try to incorporate it to our intervention goals to provide patient-centered care. Collaboration with other professionals may also be applied as early as now through this subject when discussing about the goals that we may incorporate to the patient’s intervention plan. In the end, it is always important to show empathy and keep in mind that what we are doing is not for us, but for the patient, which is shown in this activity.

 

In the process of making our CLL #3, I was actually amazed as to how smooth our meeting went. It is very evident that each and every one of us are knowledgeable regarding the role of PT, OT, SLP and SPS in a rehabilitation team which made it easy for us to create a program that is aligned with each professional’s goal.

Unlike other models of reflective practice, Gibbs’ Reflective Cycle includes reflection on one’s feelings, a factor which often plays a big role in the process. I particularly prefer this model for it can be applied to our future practice when faced with patients. Being in an interprofessional team, we are required to reflect on what could have been done or may still be done in order to provide better service and treatment to the patient.