IPCP: Interprofessional collaborative practice; IPE: Interprofessional education; MS: Medical students; PS: Pharmacy students; SPICE Student Perceptionss of Physician-Pharmacist Interprofessional Clinical Education; TTUHSC: Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center.
This represents perhaps the greatest challenge for the future of IPE, and one which will require collaborative effort from the health workforce at individual, organizational, and structural levels.
Although higher education settings have a responsibility to provide collaborative healthcare practice to students, IPE has not yet been prompted worldwide as a formal division in health professional education and in Israel IPE among health professions students is scarce.
Interprofessional education (IPE) is proposed as a way of improving collaborative practice and patient care [ 7].
Alternatively, an active IPE in a clinical setting reportedly increased perceived collaborative and professional competence in four professions – MD, NS, PT, and OT; especially MD and OT students had the greatest gain [ 11].
Students agreed that, by participating in this IPE experience, they learned how to engage in the collaborative consultation process to support young children's learning, and acquired core ICP competencies in the four domains of teams and teamwork, interprofessional communication, understanding roles and responsibilities, and values and ethics.
Regular exposure to IPE throughout pre-registration training may help to embed collaborative practice as an integral part of health professional practice [ 15].
In the context of pre-registration (referred to as pre-licensure in some countries/disciplines) training, IPE aims to prepare and equip students for effective collaborative practice, however, it is often challenging to organise and implement [ 15].
Very few data are available regarding the translation of collaborative attributes and competencies acquired during pre-registration IPE courses into clinical practice [ 37].
Inter-professional education (IPE) is an approach which has been utilised as a tool to promote collaborative practice.
