Health care students at Qatar University (QU) colleges of Pharmacy (CPH), Health Sciences (CHS) and Medicine (CMED) were joined by their peers from other institutions at the second Interprofessional Education Student Society (IPE-SS) Research Day which was recently held at QU Research Complex.
Students from University of Calgary in Qatar (UCQ), College of the North Atlantic-Qatar (CNA-Q) and Weill Cornell Medicine - Qatar (WCM-Q) joined QU students at the event.
Themed 'The Second Annual Research Day for Healthcare Students,' the event was organised by the Interprofessional Education Student Society (IPE-SS). It was designed to engage students from various health care disciplines in interprofessional workshops and best poster and oral presentation competitions.
Five oral presentations were delivered by Nermin Al Hasan and Omnia GadAllah (CPH), Sondos Kader and Monireh Fouladi from (CHS), Jawaher Hassan, Omar Tahir, Soubiya Ansari and Mennatalla Abdelkader (CMED), Martina Estrada (CNA-Q), and Rawan Ali, Jameela Syed and Yaman Shahrour (UCQ). They presented a variety of health related issues.
Also, students were randomly divided into nine multi-professional groups in which they worked together on various research cases UREP Project: Perceptions of Shisha Smokers, Efficacy of Protein Diet in Weight loss, Effect of Curcumin on Mice Kidney Cells, Prevalence of Multiple Scle-rosis in Qatar, and Perception of Students about Drugs in Sports. Under the supervision and guidance of facilitators, they presented a total of 27 posters to a panel of judges.
The event also featured the distribution of awards for the winners in the best poster and oral presentation competitions. First place winner in the Oral Presentation Competition were CPH students Nermin Al Hasan and Omnia Gadallah. In the Poster Presentation Competition, CPH students Farah Zahra and Nawal Bensmail won the first place, CHS students Redwana Bari and Esra Moosa won the second place, while CNA-Q student Martina Estrada won the third place.
Students from University of Calgary in Qatar (UCQ), College of the North Atlantic-Qatar (CNA-Q) and Weill Cornell Medicine - Qatar (WCM-Q) joined QU students at the event.
Themed 'The Second Annual Research Day for Healthcare Students,' the event was organised by the Interprofessional Education Student Society (IPE-SS). It was designed to engage students from various health care disciplines in interprofessional workshops and best poster and oral presentation competitions.
Five oral presentations were delivered by Nermin Al Hasan and Omnia GadAllah (CPH), Sondos Kader and Monireh Fouladi from (CHS), Jawaher Hassan, Omar Tahir, Soubiya Ansari and Mennatalla Abdelkader (CMED), Martina Estrada (CNA-Q), and Rawan Ali, Jameela Syed and Yaman Shahrour (UCQ). They presented a variety of health related issues.
Also, students were randomly divided into nine multi-professional groups in which they worked together on various research cases UREP Project: Perceptions of Shisha Smokers, Efficacy of Protein Diet in Weight loss, Effect of Curcumin on Mice Kidney Cells, Prevalence of Multiple Scle-rosis in Qatar, and Perception of Students about Drugs in Sports. Under the supervision and guidance of facilitators, they presented a total of 27 posters to a panel of judges.
The event also featured the distribution of awards for the winners in the best poster and oral presentation competitions. First place winner in the Oral Presentation Competition were CPH students Nermin Al Hasan and Omnia Gadallah. In the Poster Presentation Competition, CPH students Farah Zahra and Nawal Bensmail won the first place, CHS students Redwana Bari and Esra Moosa won the second place, while CNA-Q student Martina Estrada won the third place.
"It was a great day and great that this activity can bring all major providers of health care professional education together in a positive and constructive spirit giving rise to new collaborations and friendship across our institutions"
~ Dr. Egon Toft - Vice President and Founding Dean of the College of Medicine at Qatar University
"I would like to express my thanks and congratulations once again on organizing and hosting the Student IPE Research day! I think it was great that accommodation was made for students to also present about their professions for the posters as this allowed more CNA-Q Health Science students to participate."
~ Dr. Norman Wong - Technician and Lead Instructor at the College of North Atlantic in Qatar
"The commitment to interprofessional education research and practice by the partner schools is amazing. I look forward to more events"
~ Dr. Deborah White - Dean and CEO at the University of Calgary in Qatar
"I really enjoyed my Saturday interacting with enthusiastic and full of energy students"
~ Dr. Feras Alali - Associate Dead for Research and Graduate Studies in the College of Pharmacy at Qatar University
"Embracing the spirit of the cluster is proving to be nothing but an absolute pleasure. it's great to see students from various disciplines coming together to learn and work together. insha Allah this is a start of many good things to come."
~ Dr. Fahad Hanna - Assistant Professor at the College of Health Science in Qatar Unievrsity