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News Archive
April 2008
New book on IPL teaching:
A new book entitled "Preparing for Interprofessional Teaching" is now available. To read a review of this publication please visit this page
The most recent meeting of the Scottish IPE SIG was held on 22nd February 2008 at Napier University in Edinburgh. Please visit the SIG's web site for more information on this and past meetings, to find out more about the SIG or to contribute to the discussion forum on IPE.
September 2007
The first European Interprofessional Education Network in health and social care (EIPEN) International Conference took place at Jagiellonian University, in the centre of Krakow, Poland from 12th to 14th September 2007. Findings from two of the interprofessional education initiatives in Aberdeen were presented and a workshop entitled "Making Interprofessional Education (IPE) Work on a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE)" was facilitated by Lesley Diack and Michael Gibson.
To view the PowerPoint files from these presentations and workshop click on the appropriate link below:
Simulated ward conferences: A novel approach to demonstrate the importance of multidisciplinary team working - (The 2nd year large scale cross university IPE experience) presented by Michael Gibson (4MB document)
Elearning for sharing across medical and pharmacy undergraduate students (Development and evaluation of the RPSGB-funded online Medicine & Pharmacy Stage 3 IPE course) presented by Lesley Diack
Making Interprofessional Education (IPE) Work on a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) - EIPEN workshop - available soon
May 2007
The first meeting of the Scottish Interprofessional Education Special Interest Group (IPE SIG) took place on Friday 25th of May 2007 and was hosted by the Queen Margaret University in Edinburgh.
January 2007
During the Assessing Interprofessional Learning Workshop on 3rd November 2006 the Scottish Interprofessional Education Special Interest Group (IPE SIG) was formed and will meet for the first time in May next year. For more information on this new group and upcoming meeting please visit the new Scottish IPE SIG website
December 2006
The IPEA (Interprofessional Education In Aberdeen) group have recently run two training workshops for staff at the two universities who wish to find out more about the issues associated with teaching and facilitating IPE sessions. For information about these workshops or the forthcoming event on January 17th click here or contact Michael Gibson on (01224) 262558.
November 2006
The Robert Gordon University and University of Aberdeen in collaboration with the Higher Education Academy will host an Assessing Interprofessional Learning Workshop on Friday 3rd November 2006. The purpose of this workshop is to develop good practice and innovations in the assessment of interprofessional learning in health and social care in classroom and clinical and community settings. For more information on this workshop including a provisional programme click here or download the flyer here.
September 2006
A pre-conference workshop entitled "Making Interprofessional Education Work" will be held at the ASME (Association for the Study of Medical Education) Annual Scientific Meeting, 6th - 8th September 2006 at the University of Aberdeen. For more information on this and other workshops click here
June 2006
An IPE podcast is now available on the Health Sciences and Practice website. To listen to or download this podcast please click here
May 2006
As part of the ongoing interprofessional education programme between the School of Medicine at the University of Aberdeen and the Faculty of Health and Social Care at The Robert Gordon University, a group of Phase III medical students along with a number of Stage 3 pharmacy students have recently taken part in a novel online course using The Robert Gordon University’s Virtual Campus virtual learning environment (VLE). Read more here
April 2006
The third international All Together Better Health conference will take place on Monday April 10th to Wednesday April 12th at Imperial College London. For more information on this conference click here to visit the conference website
November 2005
Click here to see an article from the November 2005 edition of the University of Aberdeen's College of Life Sciences and Medicine "eBulletin" outlining the background and aims of the Aberdeen IPE project.
An overview of the 1st year inteprofessional workshops entitled "Interprofessional Education in Aberdeen: The use of undergraduate team working to improve understanding of care of the elderly" is now available online in Microsoft Powerpoint format (168KB). This overview was presented at the "Forging Partnerships in Inter-Professional Education" conference held at Loughborough University on 8th November 2005. Click on the image below to view the presentation.
The joint Aberdeen "E-learning for sharing across medical, health and social care undergraduate students: development, evaluation, assessment and dissemination of an elearning inter-professional module" project has been awarded 5000 pounds by the Pharmacy Practice Research Trust.
Joint Robert Gordon University and University of Aberdeen Interprofessional Health & Social Care Education web site launched.
