BLENDED INTENSIVE PROGRAMME (BIP) Building Roles and Interprofessional Communication (BRIC-BIP)

By Kirsten Garré In New

WHAT

This course is about addressing, discussing and creating issues regarding current challenges for those working in the health care sector in different countries. In this course students study together with colleagues from other countries. The programme consists of an intensive five-day face-to-face training programme, preceded by a virtual component.

The language of instruction is English.

 

Objectives and description 

What participants need to bring with them:

• Openness to roles
• Openness to professions
• Cultural openness
• Openness to interprofessional cooperation
• Openness to international cooperation
• B2-level language skills in English as a minimum requirement

 

Learning Outcomes 

• Participants transfer their individual action processes to possible (new) fields of action.
• Participants work within interprofessional teams to create possible role models with corresponding task descriptions and competency descriptions for other health professions.
• Participants describe possible professional fields with a focus on interprofessional work.
• Participants analyse complex care situations that have been brought in from different disciplines/professions.
• Participants develop interprofessional recommendations for individuals and groups.
• Participants consider the basic principles of public health, health promotion, and health literacy in their elaborations.
• Participants create possible clinical pathways for selected clients/patients.
• Participants develop ways to find a common language for case discussions in teams.
• In interprofessional case discussions, participants show understanding and respect for the roles of the other professions.

 

WHERE
Linz, Austria

 

ORGANISERS
The Bachelor’s degree programmes Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy and Healthcare and Nursing at the University of Applied Sciences for Health Professions Upper Austria and Deggendorf Institute of Technology, 

 

MORE INFO
More info on the program, methods, application, etc. can be found in this flyer.

 

REGISTRATION
Nomination deadline: 22 October 2025
Confirmation of nomination: by 27 October 2025