Presentation by Dr Ian Olney 27 February 2012

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Right Start Forum
Resourcing for programs to prepare pre-graduate
health professionals for the workplace
Dr. Ian Olney
University Of Western Sydney
27 February 2012
Team Health Right Start Program Showcase
27 February 2012

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Introduction & Background
l CurrentSchool Of Medicine –Conference Week
Integration
l Initially to focus on advanced communication skills
l Y5 – ‘Conference Week’ 4 times a year
l Intention
to include other disciplines where possible
including Nursing & Social Work (Pyschology)
l Connections with ICTC
Team Health Right Start Program Showcase
27 February 2012

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Introduction & Background
the Project - ICTC - DOHA funded
the location - UWS & local community clinics
the students - 5 health disciplines
Nursing, Medicine, Physio, Podiatry & Psych
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Aim & Methods
l To incorporate in the GP Conference Week Program
l Communication Skills Exercise Sept,Dec – 2011 &
Jan 2012
l Scenarios, - “Critical Settings”
Incl.
Breaking bad news,
Disclosing a medical error,
Dealing with bereavement,
Denying patient treatment or medication(requested)
Team Health Right Start Program Showcase
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Aim & Methods
Session 1
l In Multidisciplinary group (pair) 30 minutes to review the scenario
l 20 minutes with a professional actor (video captured on iPad)
l 30 minutes to review & critique – with professional tutor
l Students self assess & assess the performance as a team
Session 2
l Scenario involving critically ill patient –Blacktown Hosp. Simulation Lab
(AIMSI)
l Session 3 (Jan 2012)
l PBL exercise with Adv Nursing Students-chronic & complex conditions
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Results
l Encouraging – considering the issues relating to the
extent of the multidisciplinary involvement in the 3
sessions.
l Sept – 86 med, 20 Nursing & 6 Social Work students
l Dec – 86 med & 6 nursing students
l Jan – 86 med students –
l Brief
quantitative feedback – ‘highly enjoyed’
or ,enjoyed the experience
l Informal qualitative feedback
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Results
It was awesome, Would definitely recommend others to
get involved. Enjoyed collaborating with the med
student, knowing they were going through the same
expreience and were no better or worse than the
nursing student.
…. It was so real having the actor there that it made
you think that you were in a real situation…
…The fact that you could watch the video back made
you reflect on your performance.
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Results
The whole experience was great and very helpful. It
was something I had not experienced in the clinical
setting and to collaborate with a med student who was
in the same situation was the highlight.
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Results
ICTC
I did the clinic with Dr X yesterday and it was awesome, he asked the students
to work together and gather information about the patients current medical
status as well as any family and medical history, then we collaborated as to
what the possible condition the patient is suffering from as well as the possible
treatments.
It was very interesting, for myself as a nursing student, to see this side of the
medical profession, as normally we are at the end of the process, when the
patient is already hospitalized, this clinical enables us to see how, why and what
placed them in our care.
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Results
ICTC
Being able to follow one patient over 3 hrs through different disciplines (GP,
podiatry, exercise physiologist) make me a lot more aware of how important
cross-disciplinary treatments
I was surprised to learn that such a place exists with all the specialists in their
respective fields in one place to work on each patient as a whole person.
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Conclusions & Lessons Learned
l The Project as give the Schools an “injection”
l Value of immediate feedback
l Voluntary? Incentives?
Needs
l Plenty of lead time to get students involved
l Timing – to link with semester schedule, work etc
l Tutor preparation – feedback for students
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Where to from here?
l For Sept 2012
l Involvement of other disciplines – Physio
l Timing
l The sell
l Possible inclusion of other disciplines in Conf week
activities (eg Mock interviews)
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Thank You
Further Questions
Assoc. Prof.Wendy Hu (Dept. of GP)
w.hu@uws.edu.au
Prof. Annemarie Hennessy(Dean)
an.hennessy@uws.edu.au
Team Health Right Start Program Showcase
27 February 2012