Activities / Projects
OLIVER
Background
Veterinary students begin their core clinical rotations in the middle of their fourth year and continue throughout their final year. This transition into full time clinical training can be considered to be exciting for some and agonising for others. Recent research undertaken within the Enhancing Clinical Learning in the Workplace project found that students perceived themselves to be anxious, stressed and underprepared for their transition into full time clinical rotations. Most veterinary students did not read documentation relating to their rotations prior to entering the workplace. Talking with their peers, who have previously been in the workplace, constitutes the bulk of their ‘preparation’. An idea was then formed to develop an online video resource to help students understand their role and responsibilities within the workplace to help better prepare them. It is a resource which the students will use in their own time and in their own way for flexible learning.
Aim
To involve veterinary and veterinary nursing students in the production of an online video resource in order to:
- better prepare veterinary and veterinary nursing students for the clinical workplace (specifically intra-mural rotations and nursing placements)
- engage students in the production of an online learning resource
- use technology to harness learning
- promote inter-professional working
Development
A number of videos were collected, edited and screened which included:
- Video diaries: students talking about their own clinical experiences and top tips for rotations
- Process of a consultation in each of the referral hospitals
- Interviews with staff across equine, small animal and farm discussing what they expect from students
- student perspective of what it is like to work in each of the referral hospitals (student tours around equine referral hospital, small animal referral hospital and small animal first opinion)
Sponsorship
This project has been jointly funded by the subject centres in Medicine, Dentistry and Veterinary Medicine and Health Sciences and Practice. This website has been developed by LIVE.