Funded project
Learning from lives: inter-professional practice learning
| Project details | |
|---|---|
| Project contributors | Roger Smith, Liz Anderson & Lucy Thorpe |
| Organisation | University of Leicester |
| Contact details | rssmith01@dmu.ac.uk; esa1@le.ac.uk |
| Disciplinary focus | Social Work |
| Completion date | 2006 |
Description
This project has built on the well-established programme of interprofessional learning developed by the Department of Medical and Social Care Education at the University of Leicester since 1998. Work has been undertaken to extend current practice to develop an over-arching strategy which ensures that students progress through a series of varied shared learning opportunities. This project formed one element of this wider strategy in that it brought together social work students with colleagues from medicine (and other disciplines) to undertake shared practice learning in the context of disability.
The project utilised existing partnerships with organisations representing service user interests, in order to enable students to work jointly on the exploration of specific case examples, in order to assess service provision and outcomes, and to present their own analyses of what they find. Working in multi-professional teams, students met service users, voluntary organisations, locality tutors, and a range of agencies, in order to apply ideas about effective joint working to concrete practice issues, based on the direct experiences of service users. Students gained skills in team-working from this exercise, as well as a better appreciation of the different professional perspectives and values which are brought to the practice setting.
Outcomes and findings
Project report: Interprofessional education (PDF, 262KB)
