Miss Zeina Walid El Houry and  Miss Doha Khalil Halwani,5th year Medicine students, got the chance to attend the 5th World Healthcare Students’ Symposium in lausanne ,switzerland on 13/9/2013; and  learn a lot and get inspired by interesting people .

        The main goal of this conference was to bring medicine, pharmacy and multiple health care students together in an international forum to generate discussion and understanding across the healthcare field and to develop skills
            
            The most important take-home messages were:"The performance of the collaborative programs must base on the demonstration of solid scientific, clinical and economical evidence (Evidence based practice)." - Sentence said by Prof. Olivier Bugnon while talking about the importance of accountable care - taking the side of economics under scope.
"It is NOT possible to substitute, but it IS possible to delegate." - Sentence said by from Dr. Orlando Monteiro da Silva while talking about cooperation of different professions.

"Health Care is constantly changing." - Sentence said by Prof. Charlie Benrimoj while talking about overcoming barriers in health systems.

         One of the most entertaining lecture "The goal of Inteprofessional education is to develop knowledge, skills and attitudes that result in interprofessional team behaviors and competence in order to improve care." - Sentence said during the presentation of Prof. Michaud and Prof. Morin, where they emphasized, that the future for interprofessional collaboration is right now!

Prof. Marja Airaksinen was talking about the medical ethics and special reference to communications on medications.
Prof. Christian Lovis had an amazing presentation about new technologies, which many of us believed that they are only in sci-fi movies. Paraphrasing Prof. Lovis he mentioned: “Sci-fi movies bring actually good ideas of possible technologies, which shall be investigated.” For example the Google Glasses – do we have a way how to use them in healthcare? An example from their department are special glasses used to create 3D environment and leap motion to navigate information. Another interesting fact is an effort to create an serious online interactive gaming for elderly people

                 The basic rule of humanitarian work is: “You are never alone!” Very attractive lecture was delivered by Matthias Kuge from MSF (Medecins Sans Frontieres), who emphasize how important the interprofessional collaboration is in the real field. By sharing stories from different environments and situations we were brought into the world, where there are no good results without cooperation. Communication plays a huge role, while treating a patient, therefore we should not never forget that. 

                 Dr. Giannoula Tsakitzidis delivered a mind refreshing lecture about defining Interprofessional Collaboration – is it competence or competition? Starting by defining the difference between multiprofessional and interprofessional approach she continued with explaining educational modules in Belgium. Furthermore she mentioned few barriers, which make starting the collaboration difficult. “Start collaboration, but which one and why?” One more important message to mention is: “Teamwork assumes leadership.” Therefore do not be afraid to take the opportunities and challenge yourself to be put into the role of a leader in a group.