News Hospital puts student doctors to the test
Trainee doctors have been put through their paces on Ward Two at Goole and District Hospital, which is home to an innovative inter-professional training unit.
One of only two in the whole country, the Goole training unit opened its doors to student doctors from Hull York Medical School (HYMS) for the first time last August, welcoming 107 medical students over the last 12 months, and now its first year in operation is being reviewed.
Ward staff, together with representatives from Northern Lincolnshire and Goole hospital, the Faculty of Health & Social Care and HYMS, as well as newly-qualified doctors and nurses who trained on Ward Two, and allied healthcare professionals, have gathered together as part of the review process.
Student facilitators, ward manager Sue Cooper and HYMS senior lecturer Dr Patricia McGettigan, said: "We have had an excellent first year and are absolutely delighted with the feedback we have received from the review.
"It has been an exceptionally busy but thoroughly enjoyable first year for us and also for the staff, students and patients. Everyone has embraced the idea of inter-professional training wholeheartedly and we are looking forward to welcoming 134 medical students this year.
"The two-week placements provide medical students with a valuable insight into inter-professionals working cohesively together in a ward environment. Students work alongside ward nurses, clinicians and allied healthcare professional in providing care for patients on a day-to-day basis.
"We are now seeking to extend this valuable learning facility to allied healthcare professionals including physiotherapists and occupational therapists."
The 107 fifth-year students undertook their training at the town's hospital as part of their final year studies. This is in addition to nursing students who have for many years carried out training placements at the inter-professional training unit, which is a collaboration between Northern Lincolnshire and Goole Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, HYMS and the Faculty of Health & Social Care at the University of Hull.
The aim of the training unit is to enable medical students to develop their profession's specific skills and competencies in dealing with patients and to enhance their team-working skills in an inter-professional environment.
Former student and now qualified doctor Lisa Tharby said: "The two-week placement at Goole Hospital was very helpful and interesting as it was very hands on and we were able to take part in day to day tasks such as helping with physio.
"It gave us a really useful opportunity to see the roles of other healthcare professionals and to work with them inter-professionally."
Helen Leason, also a medical graduate, added: "We were given the opportunity to do more things than on other training placements as it was very hands on working alongside staff caring for patients.
"It was very beneficial to see how the other professions work and invaluable to our training."
Published on 21st August 2008 in News.
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