Student Involvement in Interprofessional Work & Perceived Impact On Future Collaboration

Abstract

After experiencing the multifaceted benefits of an interdisciplinary approach to pandemic planning, our multi-disciplinary team will conduct further research on interprofessional academic programming. Through this experience, we noticed that interprofessional work has benefited our education. Specifically, we seek to understand if our experiences, which influence our proposed hypotheses, align with the broader population and indicate a trend. We hypothesize that an interprofessional approach to educating the next generation of healthcare leaders will (1) enhance the pedagogical methods of multiple healthcare disciplines, thus addressing current knowledge gaps across silos; (2) improve students’ experience; and (3) improve and impact the effectiveness of the delivery of services and patient care from providers in the future. The team stipulates that interprofessional education, referenced as an intervention, addresses interprofessional challenges, which normally hinder professional practice. Additionally, interprofessional education has the potential to enforce provider attention to healthcare outcomes such as access and inequity.https://dune.une.edu/cecefall2021/1002/thumbnail.jp