A recent survey has found that Curtin University health sciences students are \u2018highly satisfied\u2019 with the new interprofessional education (IPE) curriculum.<\/p>\n
Introduced in semester one this year, Curtin is the first university in Australia to offer an integrated interprofessional experience to its students across its 22 health sciences undergraduate degrees.<\/p>\n
More than 1600 health students rated their learning experience of the pioneering curriculum, which provides students with a head start on teamwork, recording opinions on teaching quality, motivation and learning resources, through Curtin\u2019s online eVALUate survey.<\/p>\n
One of the key learning subjects, which introduces students to Indigenous cultures, received a 94 per cent satisfaction rate and a subject exploring the factors that influence health and wellbeing of individuals followed closely behind at 93 per cent.<\/p>\n
Other courses that performed well include Biomedical Science with a 94 per cent success rate and Functional Anatomy achieving an average of 93 per cent.<\/p>\n
First-year midwifery student Norafiah Lever of Carlisle said she enjoyed the Indigenous course because it challenged the misconceptions people may have and highlighted issues that have an enormous impact on the health of Indigenous people in Australia.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThis unit has contributed to my personal growth because it encourages self-reflection,\u201d Ms Lever said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have learned about cultural differences and how they contribute to people\u2019s attitudes towards their health and treatment. Even as a first-year midwifery student I am already able to apply this learning in my continuity of care experiences.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve enjoyed studying alongside other health students. We\u2019ve been able to get an understanding of how each of our professions can collaborate to provide the best possible care and service to the client.\u201d<\/p>\n
Pro Vice-Chancellor of the Faculty of Health Sciences Professor Jill Downie said the University was delighted with the positive outcome.<\/p>\n
\u201cTraditional university curriculum structures limit the time that students from different professions can spend together, learning about and from each other,\u201d Professor Downie said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe new IPE curriculum encourages students studying diverse health degrees to work together as a collaborative team from day one of their education to ensure the delivery of improved safety and quality in health and social care services.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe survey confirms that students are enjoying this cutting-edge program. We\u2019ve also already seen an improvement in student progression rates.\u201d A recent survey has found that Curtin University health sciences students are \u2018highly satisfied\u2019 with the new interprofessional education (IPE) curriculum. Introduced in semester one this year, Curtin is the first university in Australia to offer an integrated interprofessional experience to its students across its 22 health sciences undergraduate degrees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4275,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_research-areas":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"research-areas":[],"class_list":["post-17810","media-release","type-media-release","status-publish","hentry","category-research"],"acf":{"post_options":{"":null,"additional_content":{"title":"","content":"","image":false},"related_courses":false,"credits":{"author":null,"photographer":null,"media":false},"display_author":true,"banner":{"image":false}}},"featured_image":false,"author_meta":{"first_name":"Curtin","last_name":"University","display_name":"Curtin University"},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media-release\/17810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media-release"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/media-release"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media-release\/17810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17810"},{"taxonomy":"research-areas","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research-areas?post=17810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nContacts:
\nTeresa Belcher \/ Kristy Jones, Public Relations, Curtin University
\nTel: 08 9266 9085, Email: teresa.belcher@curtin.edu.au<\/a> \/ k.jones@curtin.edu.au<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"