1. Bringing students together with Inter-Professional Learning (IPL)
Clair Zawada
Academic Lead

2. Introduction
Birmingham City University – located in UK, Midlands, with approximately 24,000 students.
Faculty of Health, Education & Life Sciences offers courses in education, social work, nursing, midwifery, allied health, sports, public health and biomedical engineering.
Many students within the Faculty have a placement element within their course.

3. Inter-Professional Learning (IPL) – What is it?
“Occasions when two or more professions learn with, from and about each other to improve collaboration and the quality of care”
Enables the participant professions to learn from, with and about one another”
The Centre for the Advancement of Interprofessional Education (CAIPE)

4. Inter-Professional Learning (IPL) – The Challenges
Some links between professions are more ‘relevant’ than others.
Navigating student placement patterns
Varying cohort sizes
Student engagement with extra-curricular activities
Resources

5. The IPL Conference Faculty of Health, Education & Life Sciences
Identified week in academic calendar
Open to all staff and students
Varied timetable of sessions across the week
Most programmes contributed sessions to the timetable
Booking system for all sessions
Attendance optional but encouraged

6. HELS ‘Peaky Blinders’ escape room
Interpreting chest x-rays
Have a go at laparoscopy
Makaton signing
Dealing with a hanging body
Tackling homophobia in children
What happens in court when it goes wrong
ECG Interpretation
Have a go at Diagnostic Radiography
Guiding People with Severe Sight Loss
Impairment Awareness Training
History and science behind resuscitation
Helping your child with Primary maths – the way they do it today!
The Body Virtual Reality
Emotional Resilience
Theatre Environment and Theatre Etiquette
Introduction to Counselling
A Day in the Life of Daisy’ Assessing Children in Critical Care
Have a go at Ultrasound
Transgender Awareness
First aid / dealing with choking

7. Logistics Finding ideas for sessions, and knowing who does what
Marketing – getting the message out to staff and students
Timetabling, and fitting in around student lectures
Booking system – tried Eventbrite, then Moodle
Attendance registers and certificates
Obtaining evaluations

8. Student Evaluation
“…it was open to everyone and we got to experience things that mostly students in other courses would experience.”
“I was able to choose the learning that was most applicable for me. I was able to extend my existing knowledge and compliment my studies”
“I loved these programmes, they were extremely helpful and were brilliant in gaining a chance to network with other students from different years.”
“I liked being able to pick which sessions I attended, and working with students from other courses. It was nice to have a change in timetable from the my usual course lectures and learn new skills.”
“…I met radiographers from second year during Advanced life support and teachers during dealing with a choking infant. I also met fellow nursing students in being old which enabled me to ask questions and make new connections. They were stimulating and something different to engage in being more practical and hands on. This is something I'd recommend every year, the activities allow you to build up on your current learning to develop a deeper understanding.”

9. Student Evaluation
On a scale of 1-5 (with 1 being not at all, and 5 being very much so) please rate your experience of the IPL programme 1 2 3 4 5
Enjoyable
Useful
Informative
Relevant
Avg 4.7
Avg 4.7
Avg 4.7
Avg 4.5
98% of students would recommend the IPL conference to a fellow student
89% of students interacted with students from other professions

10. Moving Forward Run twice per academic year Increase student engagement
Increase timetable variety
Improve marketing and communications
Encourage course leaders to embed into curriculum
Regular IPL webinars

11. Thank You