Composing the symphony of interprofessional care: A reflection on innovations in interprofessional education

Following the succession of high profile serious case and service reviews (for example Lord Laming, 2003 and Francis, 2013), interprofessional working continues to be an identified area of development within health and social services. In response to this, the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) and Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) have issued guidelines and recommendations for interprofessional education to become embedded across the professional courses (NMC, 2010; HCPC, 2014). The University of Huddersfield continued their proactive approach to inter-professional education (IPE) by revalidating all health professional courses in 2012, creating new and innovative modules across the professions. This poster will focus on the experience of facilitating a Year 2 module, ‘Interprofessional working in context’. The module includes students and staff from all fields of nursing, midwifery, occupational therapy, podiatry and physiotherapy, and explores the key features and challenges of interprofessional working within the context of contemporary health and social care services (Day, 2013; Thistlethwaite, 2012). Due to practice placement commitments of the different professions, this module is predominantly delivered through weekly online directed study supported by an online communication tool and a one day conference event mid-way through the academic year. The multiprofessional group assessment encourages students to meet and collaborate with their peers, whilst also considering the priorities and commitments of the different courses. Colleagues from clinical areas are invited to provide the key note lectures to support student participation in creative workshops to consolidate the learning experience. This approach facilitates ‘real life’ experience of team-working within an interprofessional and interagency context. The module philosophy actively encourages the students to work within a team whilst maintaining the integrity of their own profession and the professional codes which regulate them. This poster will be a visual representation of how effective multiprofessional teams are able to work and learn together to successfully deliver effective person centred care. This will include a metaphorical visual reflection of staff and student experiences on the modul

Fusion Learning Conference 2021 - Supplement

This is a supplement to the proceedings of the 2021 Fusion Learning Conference held at Bournemouth University in the UK and contains material not previously published

Upregulation of PKD1L2 provokes a complex neuromuscular disease in the mouse

Following a screen for neuromuscular mouse mutants, we identified ostes, a novel N-ethyl N-nitrosourea-induced mouse mutant with muscle atrophy. Genetic and biochemical evidence shows that upregulation of the novel, uncharacterized transient receptor potential polycystic (TRPP) channel PKD1L2 (polycystic kidney disease gene 1-like 2) underlies this disease. Ostes mice suffer from chronic neuromuscular impairments including neuromuscular junction degeneration, polyneuronal innervation and myopathy. Ectopic expression of PKD1L2 in transgenic mice reproduced the ostes myopathic changes and, indeed, caused severe muscle atrophy in Tg(Pkd1l2)/Tg(Pkd1l2) mice. Moreover, double-heterozygous mice (ostes/+, Tg(Pkd1l2)/0) suffer from myopathic changes more profound than each heterozygote, indicating positive correlation between PKD1L2 levels and disease severity. We show that, in vivo, PKD1L2 primarily associates with endogenous fatty acid synthase in normal skeletal muscle, and these proteins co-localize to costameric regions of the muscle fibre. In diseased ostes/ostes muscle, both proteins are upregulated, and ostes/ostes mice show signs of abnormal lipid metabolism. This work shows the first role for a TRPP channel in neuromuscular integrity and disease

Fusion Learning Conference 2023 - proceedings

Welcome to the 3rd annual Fusion Learning Conference at BU. The event provides a hub for the exchange of knowledge, pedagogical innovations, and cutting-edge research that shape the landscape of our learning and teaching. This year we are hosting the largest number of submissions to the conference and look forward to an exciting line up of guest speaker from IBM presenting on the influence of Artificial Intelligence on higher education; a BU panel of experts sharing their insight about some of the emerging themes in our learning and teaching and preparing our students for future of work; staff presentations and discussions including, student engagement, digital transformation, academic integrity, inclusive and sustainability in the curriculum design. I hope that you find this selection of posters and abstracts to be enlightening

Extracting Occupational Therapy Concepts to Develop Domain Ontology

Abstract— Recently, unstructured data on the World Wide Web has generated significant interest in the extraction of text, emails, web pages, reports and research papers in their raw form. Far more interestingly, extracting information from a specific domain using distributed corpora from the World Wide Web is a vital step towards creating corpus annotation. This paper describes a method of annotation, based on Occupational Therapy (OT) concepts, to build domain ontology using Natural Language Programming (NLP) technology. We used Java Annotation Patterns Engine (JAPE) grammar to support regular expression matching and thus annotate OT concepts using a GATE developer tool. This speeds up the time-consuming development of the ontology, which is important for experts in the domain facing time constraints and high workloads. The rules provide significant results: the pattern matching of OT concepts based on the lookup list produced 403 correct concepts and the accuracy was generally higher. Using NLP technique is a good approach to reducing the domain expert’s work, and the results can be evaluated