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Clinical Skills Team Modelling Interprofessional Collaboration, Susan I. Vella

Graduate School of Medicine - Papers (Archive)

Background: The Graduate School of Medicine at the University of Wollongong began with its first cohort of 80 graduate-entry students in January 2007. A diverse group of tutors was recruited from the region to deliver the clinical skills program. Tutor expertise included clinical and academic education from generalist and specialist fields of nursing and medicine.

A variety of health and medical schools are investigating how to improve professional relationships within the health care industry by fostering interprofessional collaboration in the curriculum. One problem fostering interprofessional collaboration in the early years of training is lack of student awareness of the boundaries …