First Inter-Professional Education Gathering At Welcome Week
At the University of Birmingham, during Welcome Week of 2017, The University hosted the First Inter-Professional Education Gathering for all students starting at the University studying a Healthcare course. This Gathering took part in two separate halves, however it was impressive to see a completely filled lecture of students from different healthcare courses talking to eachother, to give a glimpse of what the 2017 Healthcare Class will be as an Interprofessional Team in then future when they graduate.
The Gathering consisted of a evaluation via the Clickers with a series of questions about fears/ anxieties and what the cohort were looking forward to, and all answers had a resounding similarity, which helped to break through the invisible walls between different courses by acting as an ice-breaker to get people more involved in the conversation. Following on from this, people from different courses were called out from the audience to expand these answers into the microphone to share with the rest of the 2017 cohort. The gathering used the Clickers to show the proportion of different healthcare students who were in attendance, which helped introduce the different courses who each student would be working with.
All IPE Leads were in attendance, with representatives of each Course giving an introduction and a quick summary of what their Course was about, what IPE was, its importance and the key factors that are involved in working within an interdisciplinary team between healthcare courses. These points were further consolidated within a TV Hospital clip which the student Cohort were asked to comment on both their good actions and those which hindered the members acting as an interdisciplinary team, which acted as a great team-building exercise between students. The presentation also introduced The Inter-Professional Education Healthcare Team Challenge. (More details to Follow.)
HEALTHCARE TEAM PHOTO CHALLENGE!!
First years: Post photos of yourself with students from other professions and you could win £20 worth of shopping vouchers! Follow the instructions on the poster and don't forget to tag KASE! #KASE #HealthCareChallenge #HealthcareProfessions#InterProfessionalWork #UniversityOfBirmingham #Medicine #Dentistry#Pharmacy #BioMed #Physiotherapists #PA #Nursing
How to Participate?
Form an interprofessional student team (min 3, max 6 professions) and take up to 4 photos, with short captions, to show the highs and lows of your first term. Send your photo collection and team details to Christine Lloyd: C.Lloyd.1@bham.ac.uk and have a chance to win a prize!
Following on, KASE was introduced to the 2017 Cohort, including who they are, what they have done in the past, and their importance within the University of Birmingham HealthCare Community. For more opportunities to work together with students from other healthcare courses, KASE, Knowledge and Skills Exchange, is a society that promotes interprofessional education and collaboration in healthcare in order to promote better patient care. Last year KASE applied to HandsUp Fundings and organised an InterProfessional Education trip to the Lake District! Healthcare students at UoB who are interested in getting involved with KASE and its interprofessional activities which include socials, educational evenings and volunteering events are welcome to join this group so that you can stay up to date with the developments of the society and opportunities to get involved. Have a look at their page for more https://www.facebook.com/kase.ipe/ !
Towards the end of the session, we were proud to have Healthbridge introduced to the 2017 Cohort and were followed by MedSoc talking about their Social Events Calendar for 2017-18 academic year and how to be involved.
Overall, the first IPE gathering for Welcome Week was a resounding success and we are all looking forward to participating in it again next year for the 2018 healthcare student cohort!
