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Evaluation of a formative interprofessional team objective structured clinical examination (ITOSCE): a method of shared learning in maternity education.
Med Teach
January 2003
School of Human Development, University of Nottingham Faculty of Health Sciences, Nottingham, UK.
Article Synopsis
- Shared learning at the undergraduate level can foster a collaborative approach to maternity care through interprofessional education, allowing different health professional groups to understand each other better.
- The paper discusses using a formative objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) in which student doctors and midwives work together in mixed groups to tackle common scenarios in the labor ward.
- Feedback from facilitators on their problem-solving and teamwork skills during the interactive sessions helps promote deep learning, improving clinical skills, and nurturing a positive attitude towards multidisciplinary collaboration among both student groups.
Ultrasound, hysteroscopy and endometrial biopsy in the investigation of endometrial cancer.
Best Pract Res Clin Obstet Gynaecol
June 2001
School of Human Development, University of Nottingham Faculty of Health Sciences, Academic Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Derby City General Hospital, Uttoexeter Road, Derby, DE22 3NE, UK.
Over the course of the last two decades hysteroscopy with endometrial biopsy has begun to replace dilation and curettage as the method of choice for the diagnosis of endometrial carcinoma. In the majority of women this can be performed as an outpatient procedure with no loss in diagnostic accuracy. Transvaginal ultrasound measurement of endometrial thickness provides a highly sensitive and less invasive alternative means of assessing the endometrium but has a low positive predictive value for cancer, especially in women taking hormone replacement therapy.
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