Current Institution: Griffith University
Fellowship: ALTC Associate Teaching Fellowship at Griffith University
Fellowship Duration: 2007 - 2011
In health care settings, doctors, nurses and allied professionals work as a multi-disciplinary team to provide comprehensive patient care. Teamwork is mandatory for good clinical practice; however, in Australia, the clinical preparation of health care students is undertaken unilaterally.
Undergraduate learning needs to better reflect actual clinical practice, namely, collaboration between the disciplines of medicine and nursing, and interaction with patients. Interprofessional learning in clinical settings, that develops knowledge of respective roles, enhances mutual regard, communication, and collaboration between doctors and nurses, is proposed. Interprofessional learning requires building capacity of clinicians who supervise students during practice and providing additional structured facilitated student learning sessions.
This Fellowship develops, implements and evaluates an educational model that supports interprofessional learning for medical and nursing students during clinical placements. Students collaborate to plan and undertake care. Patients are actively integrated into learning to extend the students’ clinical knowledge and their communication skills.
Disciplines: Health , Medicine
The Australian Learning and Teaching Fellows’ network (ALTF) was established in 2011 with support from the Australian Government Office for Learning and Teaching. The network comprises over 100 scholars who are well placed geographically, institutionally and within their discipline communities to promote and sustain effective learning and teaching in Australian higher education, now and into the future.
The Australian Learning and Teaching Fellows’ network (ALTF) was established in 2011 with support from the Australian Government Office for Learning and Teaching. The network comprises over 100 scholars who are well placed geographically, institutionally and within their discipline communities to promote and sustain effective learning and teaching in Australian higher education, now and into the future.