Healthcare Team Challenge

Healthcare Team Challenge

Welcome to the 2023 International Healthcare Team Challenge, we hope you will enjoy taking part. Background information about this challenge is found below. It outlines what to expect and how to take part over the conference days.

What is the Healthcare Team Challenge?

This challenge is an exciting and dynamic competition for students from healthcare professions from across the world attending ATBH. It gives the students an opportunity to work together and to demonstrate their expertise in teamwork and collaboration and the capacity to undertake a patient centred and ethical approach to work with patient with complicated healthcare needs. You will have the chance to work in an interprofessional and international team to develop a management plan for a patient with complicated health care needs. After an initial briefing you will work on this management plan with your team and with the support of mentors. Each team will present its management plan to a plenary session on last day of the conference. An Expert Panel will judge the presentations and announce the winning team.

History of Healthcare Team Challenge           

Healthcare Team Challenge events have taken place in Canada, Australia, UK and USA for many years. It has now become a global phenomenon. ATBH conferences in Oxford United Kingdom and in Auckland New Zealand also hosted Healthcare Team Challenge in 2016 and 2018 respectively.

What are the benefits of taking part?

Students who participated in previous challenges have found the competition rewarding and beneficial. You will have an opportunity to get to know other students including those from other health professions and other countries and improve your interprofessional communication skills. You will work as a team to deliver patient centered care to a patient with complicated healthcare needs. As a team, you will gain experience of presenting to the whole conference. You will receive a certificate of participation and maybe win with your team the competition (great addition to your CV). Most of all we hope you will have fun!

The Timetable

    • Monday6thNovember

First meeting for students. Meet the planning team and some of your team members. There will be a short presentation on the HCTC and a chance to ask questions. You will learn about the mentors who will assist you.  You will be given copies of the Case Scenario.

    • Tuesday and Wednesday7th and 8th November

Team members will work on the case (you will agree when and where)

    • Thursday9thNovember

The HCTC Competition, timing to be confirmed. Each team will present its management plan. The judges will make a decision; we will announce the winners.  We will present prizes and certificates.

Working in your Interprofessional Team

The planning team will allocate you to a small interprofessional team of between 4 and 8 students.  We will try to ensure that each team has a similar mixture of professions and nationalities.  Allocation to teams will begin on the first meeting. Once you have met your team you will agree when and where you meet to plan.  There are many spaces at the conference where you can meet or you may choose to go elsewhere.  You will need to plan how you will use support from the mentors.  You can research the case scenario any way you choose.  There is information about how to access Wi-Fi at the registration desk in the Conference Halls.

The Mentors

You will hear more about the role of the mentors at the first meeting on Monday evening.  You may contact the mentors during the conference to help your team prepare your management plan.  Mentors will provide guidance, motivation and support to the team but they cannot give provide you answers on the case or your management plan. You will need to agree with each mentor when and how you communicate. You may be able to meet face to face or use phone, WhatsApp, teams, text, Skype etc.

Your presentation

The detailed timetable for the presentations is shown on the last page of these notes.  You will see that each team has 5 minutes to present its management plan.  This includes time to make way for the next team so you should plan for slightly under 5 minutes. You may present in any format you prefer.  There will be facilities for a PowerPoint presentation (if required).  You must have your presentation ready to upload before the competition starts.  The deadline for uploading your presentation is Thursday9th November at 9.00 am (further details to follow). After your planned presentation you will have one extension question with additional information about the scenario to respond to. When you have been given this information your team will have 3 minutes to discuss your response and 2 minutes to present your ideas.

 

What are the judges looking for?

When you are preparing your presentation for the final day you will need to think about what the judges will be looking for.  The judges will consider how far your team presentation demonstrates:

    • Identification of problems & appropriate interventions
    • Role clarification
    • Patient/ family centred approach
    • Collaborative decision making
    • Team Functioning
    • Creativity and originality of your presentation
    • Culturally responsive

You will be able to register for this challenge during the process of registering for the conference. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions at ipec@qu.edu.qa