Territorial Army experience and interprofessional learning

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Territorial Army experience and
inter-professional learning
David Metcalfe Warwick Medical School

• Introduction
• Inter-professional learning
• Medical degrees rarely expose students to
  inter-professional learning.
• This deficiency can perpetuate unhelpful
  attitudes and traditional hierarchies within the
  NHS on graduation.
• The Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC)
• Specialised corps providing medical services to
  the British Army.
• The Territorial Army (TA)
• Important part of the RAMC
• Most RAMC personnel also work in the NHS.
• The TA provides an opportunity for NHS staff to
  work together in challenging training
  environments
• Also an opportunity for students to experience a
  further dimension of inter-professional learning.

• Personal reflection
• How has TA experience influenced my attitudes to
  inter-professional working?
• Exposure to healthcare professionals not always
  encountered on hospital placements
• Physician assistants
• Physiotherapists
• Pharmacists
• Environmental health officers
• Social relationship with other healthcare
  professionals
• Sporting and adventurous training opportunities
• Mess (social bar) shared by healthcare staff
• Integrated training
• Responding as a team to
• major disasters
• multiple casualties
• nuclear, biological, and chemical warfare

RAMC officers learn casualty evacuation at the
Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.
Doctors, nurses, and physiotherapists outside a
military base in Cyprus.
Supported by the Centre for Inter-professional
e-Learning (CIPEL)