Clinical supervisors' experiences of using an interprofessional clinical supervision model in an acute care setting.

Often, students converge on the acute healthcare setting in professional silos, focusing solely on key learning objectives specific to their profession. The use of an Interprofessional Clinical Supervision (IPCS) model may enable students from medicine, nursing, pharmacy, and allied health to develop profession-specific skills, provide opportunities to improve communication skills within an interprofessional team and enhance student understanding of other health professionals' contributions to care delivery. Clinical supervision of these students within an IPCS model presents a number of logistical and interprofessional challenges.

Introducing a laparoscopic simulation training and credentialing program in gynaecology: an observational study.

Background: Simulation training in laparoscopic surgery has been shown to improve surgical performance.

Aims: To describe the implementation of a laparoscopic simulation training and credentialing program for gynaecology registrars.

Materials And Methods: A pilot program consisting of protected, supervised laparoscopic simulation time, a tailored curriculum and a credentialing process, was developed and implemented.

A protocol for evaluating progressive levels of simulation fidelity in the development of technical skills, integrated performance and woman centred clinical assessment skills in undergraduate midwifery students.

Background: Simulation as a pedagogical approach has been used in health professional education to address the need to safely develop effective clinical skills prior to undertaking clinical practice. However, evidence for the use of simulation in midwifery is largely anecdotal, and research evaluating the effectiveness of different levels of simulation fidelity are lacking.Woman centred care is a core premise of the midwifery profession and describes the behaviours of an individual midwife who demonstrates safe and effective care of the individual woman.

Improving pain management of abdominal pain in children presenting to the paediatric emergency department: a pre-post interventional study.

Background: In 2007, the Mater Children's Hospital Emergency Department participated in the Emergency Care Pain Management Initiative funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council National Institute of Clinical Studies (NHMRC-NICS). The findings of this NHMRC-NICS research across eleven paediatric emergency departments highlighted deficits in pain management of abdominal pain. Specifically pain assessment, timeliness of analgesia, and pain management guidelines were found to be lacking.