Objectives:

1. To engage students in active learning through inquiry-based and experience-based pedagogies.
2. To cultivate active learning in the interprofessional students' collaborative research activities for their community services.
3. To develop students' general inquiry abilities, specific research and investigation skills and refining questions through interprofessional discussions on their construction of a collaborative plan of client care.
4. To initiate interprofessional collaborative research activities at an undergraduate level during their experience of service learning.
5. To facilitate students' interprofessional knowledge and practice development through chronic illness management in their community services.
6. To promote the process of team development and better equip students to offer integrated, interprofessional, evidence-based and client-centered community services.
7. To determine the clients' perceived benefits of the interprofessional care from the student team.

Remarks:

Outcomes & Deliverables:

• Report on the Pilot Study of the Interprofessional Final Year Project (or Capstone Project)
• An article already submitted to a peer-reviewed journal (pending)
• Newsletter Article: Project to Evaluate Interprofessional Service Learning
• An article to share project experience in sustaining interprofessional learning outcomes (pending)
• Chan, E. A. (2015). Decision-making in interprofessional practice among undergraduate students. Presentation at the 13th International Conference on Communication, Medicine, and Ethics (COMET), June 25-27, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.