'Common Learning' Strands

This will be undertaken in the middle years of the programmes i.e. year two for students on three-year courses and year three for students on five-year courses. Again the students will be working on common tasks. These activities will focus on; communication practices between interprofessional groups, the patient experience and, interviewing and shadowing members of other care-giving professions. In this stage we hope to be moving students from the multiprofessional model, toward the interprofessional model, as described by CAIPE (ref ‘97) in which two or more professions learn from and about each other. Students will be asked to consider how different professions work together and will be working within multiprofessional, facilitated, seminar groups (to further develop their interprofessional working and learning experiences). This element of the common learning programme is completely work place based.

The Middle Years IPE activity has 3 mandatory components:

Part 1: Introductory Session. This is a facilitated group session which will be conducted in or near your work placement. It is designed to introduce you to interprofessional working, and to the activities you will be asked to complete.

Part 2: This is where you carry out the tasks within your placement, as directed by the study book you receive in your introductory session.

Part 3: Debriefing Session. The final component is another facilitated session to discuss your observations and conclusions from the information you collect. You will be asked to share some of your reflections with the group, discuss any surprises you found and any of your perceptions that have changed as a result of completing the activities.

You will need to book in to one Introductory Session and one Debriefing Session. Please do this in the Programme Dates 2009-10 page.