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MH2002

Interprofessional collaboration - Områdeemne innen studieområde medisin og helse: BBIOING, BRADIO, CPSYR, HSGAUB

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Credits 7.5
Level Intermediate course, level II
Course start Autumn 2025
Duration 2 semesters
Language of instruction Norwegian
Location Trondheim
Examination arrangement Portfolio

About

About the course

Course content

This is a course within study area medicine and health. This course aims to give students from different health professions insight into what it means to interact both interdisciplinary, interprofessional, cross-sectoral and across businesses. In addition, the course provides students with a practical and theoretical basis for engaging in professional collaboration and initiating such collaboration.

To achieve this, the students, who come from different study programs, must learn about, from and with each other. In this course, students will work with i interprofessional collaboration in different contexts.

The focus is on interprofessional collaboration in general, in addition can topics like communication, ethics, legislation, equal services, health and social system and health policy, inclusion and non-discrimination including Sami peoples status as indigenous peoples, children and young people, risk assessment, improvement knowledge, innovation and digital cooperation be included.

The course is equal MH2001.

Learning outcome

The learning outcomes cover several topics within all the general learning outcomes in §2 of the Regulations for a common framework for Health and Social Studies (https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2017 -09-06-1353), at the level needed to participate in interprofessional collaboration.

Knowledge: The student:

  • Knows what collaboration in the health care service entails, including interdisciplinary, interprofessional and cross-sectoral collaboration.
  • Knows how interprofessional collaboration can strengthen interaction with users, patients and relatives.
  • Knows about health and social policy, can update their knowledge of the health and welfare system, laws, regulations and guidelines and apply them in interprofessional collaboration.
  • Knows about inclusion, gender equality and non-discrimination measures, and has knowledge of how interprofessional collaboration can help ensure equal services for all groups in society.
  • Knows how interprofessional collaboration can be used in innovative thinking and innovation processes that can be used in the health service.
  • Knows about methods for assessing the risk of adverse events and how this can be followed up in a systematic way in interprofessional collaboration.

Skills: The student:

  • Can participate in interprofessional collaboration that requires acquiring new knowledge and can make professional judgments, decisions and actions in line with knowledge-based practice, and can document and disseminate this.
  • Can apply their own professional competence to knowledge sharing, in equal interaction with other professional practitioners including cross-professional mapping of patient/user.
  • Can identify, reflect on and deal with ethical issues which may arise in their professional work in general, and in interprofessional collaboration in particular.
  • Can contribute to service innovation and has knowledge of systematic and quality-enhancing work processes in multidisciplinary teams.

General competence: The student:

  • Is aware of links between health, education, work and living conditions, and how such knowledge can be used in interprofessional collaboration.
  • Can reflect upon their own and other professions' role in interprofessional interaction / interprofessional teams.

Learning methods and activities

The teaching is divided into several blocks (seminars) like TverrPrask, TverrSam, Innovation Camp and forbedringsarbeid. The students register in the autumn semester, however all teaching except TverrPraks is carried out in the spring semester.

There are two main activities with different learning styles:

a) Schedule compulsory teaching hours/days for all students

b) Student-driven compulsory assignments in multidisciplinary groups that are not scheduled.

The work in the groups is led by the students themselves with tutoring from student assistans and lectures.

Please note that mandatory activities will start prior to the registration deadline.

Compulsory assignments

  • Mandatory lectures/assignments

Further on evaluation

The course is assessed with pass/fail. All mandatory activities and assignments (portfolio) must be completed and passed in order to receive a passing grade in the course. The mandatory activities include scheduled seminars with group work and presentations (introduction to interdisciplinary collaboration, TverrSam, innovation camp, and improvement work), as well as various unscheduled tasks (including TverrPraks). The portfolio consists of five works:

Work 1: TverrPraks – Mandatory group work, attendance required for one day in either the autumn or spring semester. Submission of an assignment after completing TverrPraks, which involves interdisciplinary collaborative learning in practice.

Work 2: Interdisciplinary collaboration including skills and improvement work in interdisciplinary teams – Mandatory attendance on January 6 and 7, 2026. Group work with submissions/presentations during the seminar days.

Work 3: TverrSam – Mandatory attendance on January 8 and 9, 2026. Group work with submissions/presentations during the seminar days.

Work 4: Innovation Camp – Mandatory attendance from January 14 to 16, 2026. Group work and presentation during the seminar days.

Work 5: Mandatory Tasks – Not scheduled, conducted in groups and individually. Mainly carried out in February/March 2026.

Information about content, submission deadlines, weighting, formal requirements, etc., will be provided at the start of the semester and published on Blackboard. In the case of a retake, it must be clarified with the course coordinator which parts need to be completed and resubmitted.

Specific conditions

Admission to a programme of study is required:
Audiology (HSGAUB)
Biomedical Laboratory Science (BBIOING)
Clinical Psychology Programme (CPSYR)
Radiography (BRADIO)

Required previous knowledge

Study rights requirements: Access to the course requires study rights at the Clinical Programme in Psychology (CPSYR Trondheim) passed the course PSYK4303 The Role of the Psychologist 3 OR study rights at 3rd year of:

Bachelor of Audiology (HSGAUB - Trondheim) and passed the course AUT2002 - Audiological Practice 2 OR

Bachelor in Biomedical Laboratory Science (BBIOING - Trondheim) and passed the course HBIOT2023 - Medical Laboratory Technology: Automation in Medical Laboratories, including External Practice OR

Bachelor of Radiography (BRADIO - Gjøvik/Trondheim) and passed the courses:

- RAG2201 / RAT2201 - Computerthomography

- RAG2202 / RAT2202 - Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)

- RAG2203 / RAT2203 - Pathology and Relevant Imaging Modalities

Other students may be admitted after application and individual assessment.

Course materials

Textbook: Interprofessional collaboration and teamwork by Anita Iversen and Nanna Hauksdottir (2021), Gyldendal. In addition, selected articles and digital resources will be used.

Credit reductions

Course code Reduction From
MH2001 7.5 sp Autumn 2024
This course has academic overlap with the course in the table above. If you take overlapping courses, you will receive a credit reduction in the course where you have the lowest grade. If the grades are the same, the reduction will be applied to the course completed most recently.

Subject areas

  • Health Science
  • Audiology
  • Medical Laboratory Technology
  • Medicine
  • Psychology
  • Radiography

Examination

Examination

Examination arrangement: Portfolio
Grade: Passed / Not Passed

Ordinary examination - Spring 2026

Portfolio
Weighting 100/100