Shaista Salman Guraya, Muhammad Umair Akhtar, Nabil Sulaiman, Leena R David, Feras Jassim Jirjees, Manal Awad, Sausan Al Kawas, Mohamed Hassan Taha, Mohamed Haider, Jacqueline Maria Dias, Shada Aysha Kodumayil, Nihar Ranjan Dash, Amal Al-Qallaf, Ahmed Hasswan, Vida Abdolhamid Salmanpour, Salman Yousuf Guraya
BACKGROUND: Regardless of a proliferation of interest in reducing unsafe practices in healthcare, threats to patient safety (PS) remain high. Moreover, little attention has been paid towards the role of interprofessional education (IPE) in enhancing PS. This qualitative study was conducted to unfold the insights of the senior medical, dental and health sciences students at the University of Sharjah (UoS) in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) about PS in an online IPE-based workshop. METHODS: This inductive thematic analysis study was conducted on senior medical and health students at the Colleges of Medicine, Dental Medicine, Health Sciences, and Pharmacy of UoS...
December 18, 2023: BMC Medical Education