Virtual Patient to Support Inter Professional Education and Inter Professional Collaboration

Abstract

The era of Society 5.0 is also known as the era of super smart society. The concept of society in the era of Society 5.0 is centered on humans based on technology. Therefore, life skills are needed, known as the 4Cs (Creativity, Critical Thinking, Communication, and Collaboration). This condition also applies in the world of education, especially health education. Inter Professional Education (IPE) is a method of collaborative practice between two or more health professions that aims to improve collaboration capabilities and the quality of health services. Ideally, IPE has started at the stage of academic education in order to create Inter Professional Collaboration (IPC) in providing health services. Each profession that should collaborate has different competency targets and activities. Virtual patient is one of the learning media that can be developed to facilitate these differences. So that this media is in line with virtual learning that characterizes the era of society 5.0. This study aims to implement virtual patients in Inter Professional Education involving three health faculties, namely the faculty of medicine, faculty of nursing and faculty of pharmacy. The results of the study found that virtual patients are useful for bridging the competencies that must be achieved in inter professional learning.