Health Fusion Team Challenge 2010
As with all HFTC events, the Oz HFTC featured interprofessional teams of health students competing live on stage to see who could present the best therapeutic management package for a patient with complex needs. Each team also competed in several rounds of extension questions and interactive activities where their teamwork and interprofessional skills were put to the test.
Although competition throughout the day-long event was fierce, the top spot of eventually awarded to Griffith University’s PARC Team who won over the event’s judging panel with their personable style and patient interaction. (see photo below)
Every consistent, the EQUIP Team from Monash University took out the Audience Choice Award for the second year running with an enthusiastic Team Synergy from Curtin University rounding out an impressive top three.
The 2010 event was hosted at a brand new venue at The University of Queensland’s School of Pharmacy, located within the Pharmacy Australia Centre for Excellence’s impressive new complex in Woolloongabba, Brisbane.
The Finals event was chaired by HFTC Project Director Dr Monica Moran and Dr Victoria Brazil (Director of Emergency Medicine and Training, Royal Brisbane Women’s Hospital) and was attended by many important VIP’s including Mr Murray Watt MP, Parliamentary Secretary for Healthy Living.
A Year of Innovation
Building on the success of its inaugural 2009 event, this year’s National HealthFusion Team Challenge (Oz HFTC) boasted a number of additional features designed to thoroughly test its competitor’s skills. In addition to presenting and responding to questions live in front of an audience, teams were also asked to thoroughly demonstrate their interprofessional and interpersonal skills during a filmed group consultation with a standardised patient. The 2010 clinical case study was especially challenging as students were faced with a patient struggling with ongoing gastrointestinal disease, a PICC line, chronic pain, self medication and poor hygiene concerns.
Although based on a real person, ‘Jeremy’ was played by a standardised patient whose difficult nature consistently tested each team at every interaction. In the final session of the day the event's top three teams were also required to perform a number of challenging but entertaining tasks against the clock including reconstructing a wheelchair, gathering prescriptions and convincing the patient to take medications.
Teams were also given the chance to interact with ‘Jeremy’ whilst responding to their final extension questions.
– Jane Furnas, 2010
For media enquires please contact:
Jane Furnas (HFTC Project Officer)
Email: furnas@uq.edu.au
Phone: (07) 3346 8487
Left to right: Griffith University’s PARC Team: Collette Morris (Psychology), Rebecca Prigg (Pharmacy),
Fiona Ellem (Team Coordinator), Ian Connop (Social Work), Kylie Henderson (Medicine), Olivia Tran (Dentistry).
