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Interprofessional Education for Students’ in Primary Care Placements: Widening Opportunities for Accessible Interprofessional Learning

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Ensuring that health care professional students’ are provided with accessible interprofessional learning within the practice placement setting can be challenging. This paper describes an interprofessional activity which enables students to experience interprofessional learning and working within the primary care setting and to consider the impact of effective teamwork on patient safety.

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  1. University of St. Andrews, Fife, Scotland

    Veronica O’Carroll (Nurse Lecturer), Alex Collinson & Cathy Jackson

  2. NHS Fife, Fife, Scotland

    Julie Smith

  3. University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland

    Jean Ker

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  1. Veronica O’Carroll
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Correspondence to Veronica O’Carroll.

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O’Carroll, V., Smith, J., Collinson, A. et al. Interprofessional Education for Students’ in Primary Care Placements: Widening Opportunities for Accessible Interprofessional Learning. Med.Sci.Educ. 23 (Suppl 3), 405–410 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03341656

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