Interprofessional Education Days

Shared learning at undergraduate level provides a potential means of promoting a more multi-professional approach to maternity care. Interprofessional education uses shared interactive sessions to promote different professional groups’ understanding of each other and working together.

The IPE days are based around mixed groups of student doctors on their fourth-year clinical attachment in obstetrics and gynaecology and final year student midwives, rotating through a series of clinical stations (objective structured clinical examinations - osce) based on common labour ward scenarios.

The interactive nature of the sessions encourages deep learning, is student centred and promotes a positive attitude to multidisciplinary learning.

An evaluation article has been published by Symonds, I., Cullen, L., Fraser, D. (2003) Evaluation of a formative interprofessional team objective structured clinical examination (ITOSCE): a method of shared learning in maternity education. Medical Teacher. 25 (1); 34-37.