Joint health teaching planned for Aberdeen
Joint learning between pharmacy students at Aberdeen’s Robert
Gordon University and medical students at the University
of Aberdeen is to be encouraged with money from the Scottish Executive.
The two institutions have been given £115,000 to help them develop
a joint learning project.
Lesley Diack, project co-ordinator and lecturer in e-learning at RGU’s
school of pharmacy, said: “Currently, little has been achieved
at undergraduate level to instil shared learning into future health and
social care professionals. Scotland needs to take this forward in the
next few years to be able to provide a well trained and cohesive health
and social care profession.”
The universities will develop a shared learning programme for undergraduate
and professional qualifying courses in medicine at the University of
Aberdeen and pharmacy at RGU. It will also extend to the other heath
and social care students within RGU’s faculty of health and social
care.
Dr Diack added: “The establishment of an ethos of co-operative
working among health care professionals must ultimately benefit patients.
For this to be successful it has to start at undergraduate level to become
embedded in any health care system.” |
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