Table 2 Enhancing the culture of interdisciplinary education
Open code | Sub-Category | Category |
|---|---|---|
Putting subspecialists together to initiate interdisciplinary interactions | “Paving the way for an interdisciplinary culture” | Enhancing the culture of interdisciplinary education |
Merging subspecialty wards into two wards of internal medicine and surgery | ||
Placing the major responsibility on internists and surgeons, and merely consulting with subspecialists | ||
Necessitating the presence of internists among other specialists | ||
Consulting with other clinical teachers to resolve patients’ problems | ||
Examining the scenarios of morning reports from the view of clinical teachers of different specialties | ||
Holding meetings for complicated cases by involving clinical teachers of different wards | ||
Holding sessions with clinical teachers of relevant disciplines to discuss a patient case | ||
Holding continuous education programs for different specialties of medical sciences | ||
Defining inter-professional relationships in the curriculum of medicine | ||
Forming a healthcare team of specialists to perform different procedures if complications arise | ||
Having medical students learn from other disciplines such as nursing | “Enhancing teamwork culture” | |
Establishing communication between nurses and medical students to answer the questions that arise | ||
Showing the importance of other disciplines in the process of patient care and the team nature of treatment | ||
Establishing communication between students and other disciplines in case of specialized questions | ||
Accepting the nature and role of other disciplines in diagnosis and treatment | ||
Establishing a horizontal relationship between general practitioners, specialists, and subspecialists | ||
Viewing different levels of medicine, from undergraduate to subspecialty, equally | ||
Delegating the main responsibility of treatment to an internist instead of a subspecialist | “Having a general view of medical sciences instead of specialization” | |
Setting the educational atmosphere for interdisciplinary education | ||
Having internists manage the treatment because of their general view of patients for accurate diagnosis | ||
The subspecialists not commenting due to lack of a specialist view | ||
Subspecialists working alongside internists only to assist making diagnosis |