Interprofessional Education: An Approach to Improve Healthcare Outcomes

ABSTRACT

Interprofessional education (IPE) approach allows learners from different health professions viz. – medical, dental, nursing,physiotherapy, psychotherapy, psychology etc., learn from, learn with, and learn about, each other. The scope of learning depends uponthe requirements and curriculum. Interprofessional education can help in creating a workforce that learns to perform collaborativepractice thereby ensuring better health-care outcomes. Medical educators’ and practitioners’ understanding about teaching, learning,and assessment of IPE is rudimentary. Strategies to incorporate IPE in regular curricula need to be debated and barriers associated withits implementation require to be identified. This review highlights the teaching-learning and assessment tools for IPE and discussespotential challenges in its implementation.