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| A Record Effort for 2010 Oz HFTC | |
|  | | Griffith University PARC Team. From left to right: Collette Morris (Psychology), Rebecca Prigg (Pharmacy), Team Coordinator Fiona Ellem, Ian Connop (Social Work), Kylie Henderson (Medicine), Olivia Tran (Dentistry). |
The National HealthFusion Team Challenge has soared to even greater heights in 2010 with a record ten teams turning out to compete in what has become Australia’s biggest interprofessional student competition.
This year the competition welcomed representatives from eight universities including Curtin University, Flinders University, Griffith University, Monash University, Queensland University of Technology, The University of Queensland, The University of Melbourne and The University of Sydney.
The 2010 competition also saw wild card entries introduced for the first time in the form of two community-based teams featuring students from various universities across the country. Two teams from the Capricornia Allied Health Partnership (CAHP) based in Rockhampton and the National Rural Health Students’ Network (NRHSN), the country’s largest multi-disciplinary student association, featured heavily on competition day.
As with all HFTC events, the Oz HFTC featured interprofessional teams of health students competing live on stage to see who could present the best therapeutic management package for a patient with complex needs. Each team also competed in several rounds of extension questions and interactive activities where their teamwork and interprofessional skills were put to the test.
Although competition throughout the day-long event was fierce, the top spot was eventually awarded to Griffith University’s PARC Team who won over the event’s judging panel with their personable style and patient interaction.
Ever consistent, the EQUIP Team from Monash University took out the Audience Choice Award for the second year running with an enthusiastic Team Synergy from Curtin University rounding out an impressive top three.
The 2010 event was hosted at a brand new venue at The University of Queensland’s School of Pharmacy, located within the Pharmacy Australia Centre for Excellence’s impressive new complex in Woolloongabba, Brisbane.
The Finals event was chaired by HFTC Project Director Dr Monica Moran and Dr Victoria Brazil (Director of Emergency Medicine and Training, Royal Brisbane & Women’s Hospital) and was attended by Mr Murray Watt MP, Parliamentary Secretary for Healthy Living.
A Year of Innovation
Building on the success of its inaugural 2009 event, this year’s National HealthFusion Team Challenge (Oz HFTC) boasted a number of additional features designed to thoroughly test its competitor’s skills.
In addition to presenting and responding to questions live in front of an audience, teams were also asked to thoroughly demonstrate their interprofessional and interpersonal skills during a filmed group consultation with a standardised patient.
The 2010 clinical case study was especially challenging as students were faced with a patient struggling with ongoing gastrointestinal disease, a PICC line, chronic pain, self medication and poor hygiene concerns.
Although based on a real person, ‘Jeremy’ was played by a standardised patient whose difficult nature consistently tested each team at every interaction.
In the final session of the day the event’s top three teams were also required to perform a number of challenging but entertaining tasks against the clock including reconstructing a wheelchair, gathering prescriptions and convincing the patient to take medications. Teams were also given the chance to interact with ‘Jeremy’ whilst responding to their final extension questions.
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