Interprofessional bedside teaching: setting up a novel teaching programme
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Watson, Kathryn
Mainwaring, Cathryn
Moran, Amy
Jangi, Fahmeda B
Raguseelan, Nira
Simpson, Thomas
Lasoye, Tunjil
Mustafa, Omar G
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2017
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BACKGROUND: An ageing population and health-care advances mean that patients have increasingly complex medical health and social needs, requiring a multidisciplinary team. However, despite working as an interprofessional team, team members still largely train in professional silos. Furthermore health-care professionals report a poor understanding of the skills of colleagues from different professions. This article describes the set up and outcomes of a novel interprofessional bedside teaching programme. METHODS: An in-centre interprofessional teacher training course was established to facilitate interprofessional bedside teaching, along with supported ward-based sessions to apply the skills. RESULTS: Three in-centre courses and five workplace sessions have run, with forty-five and twenty-eight interprofessional participants respectively. Statistically significant improvements in confidence facilitating interprofessional teaching were seen, with participants more likely to teach at the bedside and involve the multidisciplinary team. CONCLUSIONS: This article shows evidence of a teaching programme which improves the confidence of the multidisciplinary team in facilitating interprofessional bedside teaching.
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British Journal of Hospital Medicine
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78
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12