Insights PhD

interprofessional education

Veterinary Interprofessional Education PhD

The Bloomsbury Colleges Studentships (University of London) funded a PhD into veterinary interprofessional working, learning and education. This PhD was undertaken by Tierney Kinnison during the period 2012-2016 and was joint between the Institute of Education (UCL) and the LIVE Centre, RVC. Tierney used mixed methods to gain insights into veterinary interprofessional (team) interactions and investigated the implications for interprofessional education (IPE) in the veterinary curricula. Tierney was supervised by Professor David Guile (IoE) and Professor Stephen May (RVC).

Several papers have been published from Tierney's PhD regarding the rise of interprofessional working, the use of Social Network Analysis to map interactions, poor interprofessional communication leading to error and facilitators and challenges to interprofessional working in the veterinary field:

  • Kinnison, T., May, S.A., Guile, D. 2014. Inter-Professional Practice: From Veterinarian to the Veterinary Team. Journal of Veterinary Medical Education, 41 (2): 172-178.
  • Kinnison, T., May, S.A., Guile, D. 2015. Veterinary team interactions, part one: the practice effect. Veterinary Record: 177, 419.
  • Kinnison, T., Guile, D., May, S.A. 2015. Veterinary team interactions, part two: the personal effect. Veterinary Record: 177, 541.
  • Kinnison, T., Guile, D., May, S.A. 2015. Errors in veterinary practice: preliminary lessons for building better veterinary teams. Veterinary Record: 177, 492.
  • Kinnison, T., Guile, D., May, S.A. 2016. The Case of Veterinary Interprofessional Practice: From One Health to a World of its Own. Journal of Interprofessional Education and Practice, 4: 51-57.
  • Kinnison, T., May, S.A. 2016. Evidence-Based Healthcare: The Importance of Effective Interprofessional Working for High Quality Veterinary Services, a UK Example. Veterinary Evidence, [S.l.], v. 1, n. 4, nov. 2016. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.18849/ve.v1i4.54.

To find out more about this project, visit Tierney's RVC page.

If you would like to contact Tierney about her work, please email her at tkinnison@rvc.ac.uk