BASIC OBJECTIVES OF AN IDS SESSION

Cooperative interdisciplinary training to assist in the development and evaluation of core competencies of professional behaviors as they deal with other health care disciplines

• Core content specific learning to each discipline is expected but the development of team related learning objectives are essential to health professional students’ learning
• Integrate information across the various health disciplines regarding a specific learning issue
• Understand and develop their knowledge of the various disciplines’ approach to a specific patient care issue
• Better acquire, retain and use clinical knowledge
• Develop their own sense of “self-directed learning skills” and “learning issues”
• Improve their communication and interpersonal skills
• Learn to work as a team to solve health care problems in various social, economic and cultural areas
• Develop an appreciation of what it takes to live and practice a health care career in rural West Virginia