title: Interprofessional, simulation-based technology-enhanced learning to improve physical healthcare in psychiatry: The RAMPPS course.
abstract: People with serious mental illness have reduced life expectancy compared with a control population, much of which is accounted for by significant physical comorbidity. Frontline clinical staff in mental health often lack confidence in recognition, assessment and management of such 'medical' problems. Simulation provides one way for staff to practise these skills in a safe setting. We produced a multidisciplinary simulation course around recognition and assessment of medical problems in psychiatric settings. We describe an audit of strategic and design aspects of the recognition and assessment of medical problems in psychiatric settings, using the Department of Health's 'Framework for Technology Enhanced Learning' as our audit standards. At the same time, as highlighting areas where recognition and assessment of medical problems in psychiatric settings adheres to these identified principles, such as the strategic underpinning of the approach, and the means by which information is collected, reviewed and shared, it also helps us to identify areas where we can improve.
authors.affiliation: Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, UK mike.akroyd@derbyshcft.nhs.uk.
authors.forename: Mike
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Akroyd
authors.affiliation: Leeds Metropolitan University, UK; Leeds Beckett University, UK.
authors.forename: Gary
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Jordan
authors.affiliation: Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, UK.
authors.forename: Paul
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Rowlands
mesh_terms: D000066491:Clinical Decision-Making; D015897:Comorbidity; D018961:Educational Technology; D006282:Health Personnel / Q000193:education; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D001523:Mental Disorders; D011570:Psychiatry; D000066908:Simulation Training / Q000379:methods*
keywords: clinical decision-making; collaborative work practices and IT; e-learning; healthcare professional training; quality control