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Palliative care: a suitable setting for undergraduate interprofessional education

Palliative care: a suitable setting for undergraduate interprofessional education
Palliative care: a suitable setting for undergraduate interprofessional education
Effective delivery of high-quality palliative care requires effective inter-professional teamworking by skilled health and social care professionals. Palliative care is therefore highly suitable for sowing the seeds of interprofessional teamworking in early professional education. This paper describes experiences of running undergraduate interprofessional workshops in palliative care for medical, nursing, social work, physiotherapy and occupational therapy students. These workshops are unusual in three respects: first, the involvement of family carers mean that these learning experiences are rooted in clinical reality; secondly, there is no attempt to ‘tidy up’ the story for the students; thirdly, unlike many undergraduate interprofessional programmes, these workshops have been sustained over several years. Evaluation of these workshops demonstrate that students value and enjoy the opportunity to work together; they find the experience moving, informative and interesting. Feedback from carers showed that they appreciated the opportunity to present their real-life experiences to students. Our evidence suggests that palliative care is a suitable subject for undergraduate interprofessional education.
undergraduate, interprofessional education, learning, workshop, carer, palliative care
0269-2163
487-492
Wee, B.
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Hillier, R.
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Mountford, B.
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Sheldon, B.
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Turner, P.
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Wee, B., Hillier, R., Coles, C., Mountford, B., Sheldon, B. and Turner, P. (2001) Palliative care: a suitable setting for undergraduate interprofessional education. Palliative Medicine, 15 (6), 487-492. (doi:10.1191/026921601682553978).

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Effective delivery of high-quality palliative care requires effective inter-professional teamworking by skilled health and social care professionals. Palliative care is therefore highly suitable for sowing the seeds of interprofessional teamworking in early professional education. This paper describes experiences of running undergraduate interprofessional workshops in palliative care for medical, nursing, social work, physiotherapy and occupational therapy students. These workshops are unusual in three respects: first, the involvement of family carers mean that these learning experiences are rooted in clinical reality; secondly, there is no attempt to ‘tidy up’ the story for the students; thirdly, unlike many undergraduate interprofessional programmes, these workshops have been sustained over several years. Evaluation of these workshops demonstrate that students value and enjoy the opportunity to work together; they find the experience moving, informative and interesting. Feedback from carers showed that they appreciated the opportunity to present their real-life experiences to students. Our evidence suggests that palliative care is a suitable subject for undergraduate interprofessional education.

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Published date: 1 September 2001
Keywords: undergraduate, interprofessional education, learning, workshop, carer, palliative care

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Local EPrints ID: 33780
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/33780
ISSN: 0269-2163
PURE UUID: ae3216c3-e499-4010-9a98-7176f88bfd8b

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Date deposited: 17 May 2006
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 07:45

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Author: B. Wee
Author: R. Hillier
Author: C. Coles
Author: B. Mountford
Author: B. Sheldon
Author: P. Turner

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