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Emma's Blog 
The Blog: Inter-professional education is a buzz word in medicine at the moment, and I am keen to address several key questions as I proceed through my medical training. These include: • What are the aims of IPE and how will they
be achieved? I will update the website every month throughout the course of my medical training here at Barts and The London. My Course: I have met some fantastic people since starting my course here in London - I am sharing a flat with 8 other people, 2 are also graduates on the 5 year course and we are all medics or dentists in our block. I have met lots of other graduates on the 5 year course and we range from people who have just completed a first degree, to people who completed a non-science degree several years ago and have then entered into a different career for a period of time. I think that this provides an exciting environment in which everyone can contribute different information. I've had an assortment of lectures, practical sessions and clinical demonstrations, where a clinician will introduce one of their patients to us and they will have a discussion about the illness and how it affects them. I find the balance between these different teaching methods to be excellent, and I think it is a productive way to learn as it trains people into relating scientific details back to the impact on an individual person. I find the Problem Based Learning we are doing as a major component of the course really interesting. I am in a group of nine students plus a tutor, and we work together to identify learning objectives from a specific clinical scenario before researching the objectives and then meeting again to discuss the information. It is particularly interesting as my group is a diverse mix of individuals from lots of different educational backgrounds – some with degrees and other experiences as well, and others have come straight from doing their A levels at school, so this provides an excellent combination of people. IPE Experience so far: Generally, all of the teaching sessions I attend are specifically for medics, and socially the people that the majority of medics are friends with are medics, mainly because of the fact that the medics and dentists have a separate student’s association from Queen Mary University of London. We have had an inter-professional education session this term though, in which we carried out a Problem Based Learning exercise with people training to be doctors, nurses and radiographers. It was an interesting mixture of lectures about MRSA and input from patients affected by MRSA, as well as the group learning sessions. Involving the patients in the teaching sessions was an excellent idea as it allows people to immediately see the importance of the information being discussed in relation to an individual person. We worked in groups of approximately fifteen people to discuss the topical issue of MRSA. It was fantastic to integrate with other students who were training to be health care professionals. It was interesting to have the opportunity to hear about their courses and how they differ from medicine. It also gave me a better understanding of how we might all work together in the future.
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