INTERPROFESSIONAL EDUCATION FOR HEALTHCARE STUDENTS: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW
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Background: Interprofessional education (IPE) is a course in which two students from two or more different disciplines study together to improve the quality of patient care. In health education settings, interprofessional education is growing in acceptance and significance. Objectives: To describe the characteristics, effectiveness, and factors that influence the effectiveness of Interprofessional education programs. Materials and methods: The project searched for studies on the electronic databases of Pubmed, Science Direct, and The Cochrane Library from January 1988 to December 2023 using the keywords: "Interprofessional education”, “Interprofessional Relation”, “Collaborate”, “Cooperate”, “Effective”, “Characteristic”, “Factor”, “Attitude”, “Perception” and combine keywords using Boolean operators: “OR”, “AND”. Results: A total of 2436 studies were identified and screened, leaving a final sample of 50 studies for systematic review. These were published within 2010 to 2023. Medical and nursing majors were the two most actively participating students in IPE (76%). Practice was the most commonly employed teaching method in 60% of the studies. The majority indicated that after engaging in interprofessional education, students’ knowledge (66%), attitudes (94%), and abilities improved (62%). Time and schedule were the factors that most frequently affected the effectiveness of IPE programs (30%). Conclusions: This review study shows a positive impact of educational intervention by IPE programs in various healthcare disciplines. These results provide an overview for educational researchers to explore this topic in the future.
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Interprofessional education, Health education, Systematic review
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