Talk delivered on February 4, 2017 at the Ateneo School of Medicine and Public Health Slide design by Jan Ynav Quiz Event photos from facebook.com/UPMMindMeld and Rose Anne Q. Rosanes, DMD, MPH About Mind Meld 2015: [1] https://caryamiel.wordpress.com/2015/08/07/philippines-first-interprofessional-competition-held-in-up-manila/ [2] http://whoeducationguidelines.org/blog/promoting-interprofessional-education-through-healthy-competition

1. TheMaking of the Philippines’First
InterprofessionalCompetition
Cary Amiel G. Villanueva
University of the Philippines College of Medicine
Core Organizer, Mind Meld 2015
UP MANILA
CHDP

2. Photo credit:
goodjesuitbadjesuit.blogspot.com
Care for the (Whole) Person

3. Interprofessional Education
IPE: “when students from two or more professions
learn about, from and with each other to enable
effective collaboration and improve health outcomes”
World Health Organization Framework for Action on Interprofessional Education &
Collaborative Practice (2008)

4. The First UP Manila
Interprofessional
Case Competition
UP MANILA
CHDP
"Transforming Patient Care
through
Interprofessional Collaboration"
THEME
April 18, 2015
Valenzuela Hall and Calderon Hall
University of the Philippines Manila

5. Mind Meld 2015: The Philippines’ First
Interprofessional Case Competition
WHY
we did it
HOW
we did it
WHAT
we
achieved

6. WHY WE DID IT

7. Interprofessional Education
Traditionally, health professionals are trained uniprofessionally but
expected to work in interdisciplinary teams.
VanderWielen et al. (2014). Improving public health through student-led interprofessional extracurricular
education and
collaboration: A conceptual framework. Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare, 7:105-110.
Promotion of interprofessional and transprofessional education
“that breaks down professional silos while enhancing collaborative and
non-hierarchical relationships in effective teams”
Frenk et al. (2010). Health professionals for a new century: transforming education to strengthen health
systems
in an interdependent world. The Lancet, 376(9756):1923-1958. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(10)61854-5

8. Interprofessional Education
World Health Organization
Framework for Action on
Interprofessional Education
& Collaborative Practice
(2008)

9. IPE in the Philippines
Currently, there is hardly any literature on IPE activities in the Philippines more
so of any interprofessional competition.
UP Manila is the only academic institution in the country with published
documentation of IPE activities.
Paterno, E. & Opina-Tan, L. (2014). Developing community engaged interprofessional education in the
Philippines (Chapter 10).
In Leadership development for interprofessional education and collaborative practice (Forman et al., eds.).
Palgrave Macmillian

10. Mind Meld 2015
A competition between teams composed of students from
different professions of the healthcare team. The participants are
given a case wherein, as a team, they have to assess the
situation, identify roles of the different professions and use their
knowledge and expertise to formulate management and
interventions.
UP MANILA
CHDP

11. HOW WE DID IT

12. The Idea
• "Several of us friends came to
UP Manila to undergo training
in different health professions."
• "Those interactions were
perhaps the first inklings of our
desire to think and collaborate
interprofessionally.“
Villanueva & Quiz, 2015. “Promoting
Interprofessional Education through Healthy
Competition”.
Transformative Education for Health Professionals
(http://whoeducationguidelines.org/)

13. Organizers
UP MANILA
CHDP
University of the Philippines
Pharmaceutical Association Student
Council
Academics Committee
38th UP Medicine Student Council
Academics and Research Committee
University of the Philippines Manila
Community Health and Development
Program

14. Core Team
Mark Jason C. Milan, RN (Medicine)
Co-Head, MSC Academics and
Research Committee
Cary Amiel G. Villanueva (Medicine)
Co-Head, MSC Academics and
Research Committee
Jan Ynav T. Quiz (Industrial Pharmacy)
Vice-President, UPPhA Student Council
Ann Charmaine C. Santos (Pharmacy)
Mind Meld Project Head UPPhA Service
League

15. Panel of Judges
• Dr. Elizabeth R. Paterno (Medicine)
• Dr. Louricha Opina-Tan (Medicine)
• Mr. Roderick L. Salenga, RPh, MPH
(Pharmacy)
• Dr. Rose Anne Q. Rosanes, MPH (Dentistry)
• Ms. Mary Joan Therese Valera, RN, MPH
(Nursing)
• Ms. April Rose B. Presto, OTRP
(Occupational Therapy)
• Ms. Manilyn P. Espejo (Midwife and
Community Organizer)

16. Each team composed of students earning
different degrees
UP MANILA
CHDP
Participants
TEA

17. WHAT WE ACHIEVED

18. Mind Meld 2015
18 participants
from 10 different courses
from the 7 colleges of UP
Manila
Attended by about
100 students and faculty
members

19. Mind Meld 2015

20. Mind Meld 2015

21. Teamwork
• "I had fun interacting and seeing how
different professions could work together in
order to provide solutions to a health
case.”
- Participant
• “individuals from different fields and
colleges who were well aware that their
knowledge and abilities were not enough
to solve such a complex problem/situation”
- BS Behavioral Sciences Student
(Dana Lee Acosta in UP Medics:
http://medics.upcm.ph)

22. Roles and responsibilities
• "For once, I swallowed that medicine isn't always number (one)
in the assessment & planning of a management plan.”
- MD Student
• “I (really) learned a lot and now (I understand better) how we
can work as a team (for) better health outcomes (not just for a
patient but the) community as a whole. But most importantly, (I
understand better the) value (of being a) pharmacist.”
- BS Pharmacy Student

23. Organizers’ IPE experience
“Planning the event was
already an exercise in IPE.
During the competition, we
observed the interactions
among participants coming
from distinct backgrounds as
they tackled the biomedical
and psychosocial problems at
hand.”
Villanueva & Quiz, 2015. “Promoting
Interprofessional Education through Healthy
Competition”.
Transformative Education for Health
Professionals
(http://whoeducationguidelines.org/)

24. New friendships
• “I think the most
unforgettable part was
making new friends. Who
knew making friends would
be a way to broaden your
horizons and become a
better doctor?”
- MD Student
(Jan Philippe Tan in UP
Medics,
http://medics.upcm.ph)

25. WHAT’S NEXT?

26. April 2-3, 2016
University of the Philippines Manila

27. Thank You
https://facebook.com/UPMMindMeld
Cary Amiel G. Villanueva
cavillanueva@upm.edu.ph
caryamiel.wordpress.com
UP MANILA
CHDP