Introduction: Health care involves team work. Physicians, nurses, pharmacists and social workers need to work in collaboration to deliver quality health care. It is therefore vital that team work and collaboration are integrated into the training of medical students. In a medical school where interprofessional education has not been introduced, the preclinical students are trained in silos whereas the clinical students have interprofessional experiences in hospital and community centers. This study was conducted to explore medical student’s receptiveness for interprofessional education and to identify any differences in attitude among the preclinical and clinical year students. Methods: This study adopted a cross-sectional study design using purposive sampling technique at a private medical school in Malaysia. Participants completedthe standardized Readiness for inter-professional learning Scale and the data was analyzed. Results: 436 students witha mean age of 22 years participated in this study. Among them, 170 were from preclinical and 266 were from clinical years Both the groups scored high on team work while clinical students scored better than preclinical students in understanding professional identity and recognizing their roles. Conclusion: This study shows a readiness among medical students for IPE. Clinical year medical student’s attitude was similar to preclinical students.
Coronaviruses were discovered in the mid-1960s then at 2002 in Foshan, China a new virus discovered to cause a Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS-CoV) then at 2012 another strain was identified in Saudi Arabia causing the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS). In December 2019 in Wuhan, Hubei, SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) emerged to spread as pandemic. Being a series of the same family, the current research aimed to compare the characteristics of COVID-19 in relation to SARS and MERS regarding the origin and genomic structure, mode of transmission, distribution of cases along the world countries, infectivity and mortality rates together with the clinical presentation, diagnosis and treatment.