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New undergraduates at the School of Allied Health Professions and Nursing enjoyed a lively introduction to interprofessional learning during Welcome Week which included a live ScLingo session
As our first-year students often go on placement early in their studies, School staff have developed an interactive learning game to help those unfamiliar with the Scouse accent understand the words and phrases they may hear in and around their clinical placement locations.
The School attracts over 100 international students each year from countries around the world, including Hong Kong, Saudi Arabia, and Oman. These students must navigate an unfamiliar and complex UK healthcare system, and this journey can be complicated by challenges in communicating with patients who have strong local dialects.
To address this, ScLINGO (Scouse-lingo) was created to help students learn some of the common Scouse phrases they may encounter in clinical practice, promoting both therapeutic agency and a sense of belonging.
Inspired by bingo, the game introduces players to a range of colloquialisms that may be critical to care provision and healthcare best practices. For example, phrases like "go 'ed" and "sound" are particularly relevant when dealing with informed consent, but their meaning can be unclear to students whose first language is not English or those who have no familiarity with the Scouse dialect.
The game was invented by Rebecca Rylance Graham, our Dean of School, and featured live Scouse calling by Liverpudlian radiotherapy lecturer Danny Blair.
Pete Bridge, the School IPL Lead who helped facilitate the session, said: "The game proved to be very popular, and we hope it will help prepare our students for their first encounters with patients and service users in the near future".
"The lucky winner took home a unique prize: a LivIPL podcast pin - one of only 20 in existence!"
You can hear more about our School’s interprofessional learning activities on the LivIPL podcast: https://shows.acast.com/the-livipl-podcast.