SynthesisBMC medical education2020
Attitudes towards Interprofessional education in the medical curriculum: a systematic review of the literature.
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- Is readiness for interprofessional learning maintained until graduation? A longitudinal study of medical students.International journal of medical education · 2026Observational
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- Undergraduate Interprofessional Education: Protocol for a Mixed Methods Study.JMIR research protocols · 2026Article
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- Nursing students' readiness and training needs for interprofessional education: A cross-sectional study in South Korea.PloS one · 2026Article
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- The what and why of interprofessional collaboration according to first-year health professions students: a thematic analysis of written reflections.BMC medical education · 2025Article
- An Interprofessional Training Ward in Pediatric Cardiology: Ensuring Patient Safety and Results from the Evaluation of Patient and Parent Satisfaction.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
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5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
backgroundThere is agreement among educators and professional bodies that interprofessional education needs to be implemented at the pre-registration level. We performed a systematic review assessing interprofessional learning interventions, measuring attitudes towards interprofessional education and involving pre-registration medical students across all years of medical education.
methodsA systematic literature review was performed using PubMed, PsycINFO, EThOS, EMBASE, PEDro and SCOPUS. Search terms were composed of interprofession*, interprofessional education, inter professional, inter professionally, IPE, and medical student. Inclusion criteria were 1) the use of a validated scale for assessment of attitudes towards IPE, and results for more than 35 medical students; 2) peer-reviewed articles in English and German, including medical students; and 3) results for IPE interventions published after the 2011 Interprofessional Education Collaborative (IPEC) report. We identified and screened 3995 articles. After elimination of duplicates or non-relevant topics, 278 articles remained as potentially relevant for full text assessment. We used a data extraction form including study designs, training methods, participant data, assessment measures, results, and medical year of participants for each study. A planned comprehensive meta-analysis was not possible.
resultsThis systematic review included 23 articles with a pre-test-post-test design. Interventions varied in their type and topic. Duration of interventions varied from 25 min to 6 months, and interprofessional groups ranged from 2 to 25 students. Nine studies (39%) reported data from first-year medical students, five (22%) from second-year students, six (26%) from third-year students, two (9%) from fourth-year students and one (4%) from sixth-year students. There were no studies including fifth-year students. The most frequently used assessment method was the Readiness for Interprofessional Learning Scale (RIPLS) (n = 6, 26%). About half of study outcomes showed a significant increase in positive attitudes towards interprofessional education after interventions across all medical years.
conclusionsThis systematic review showed some evidence of a post-intervention change of attitudes towards IPE across different medical years studied. IPE was successfully introduced both in pre-clinical and clinical years of the medical curriculum. With respect to changes in attitudes to IPE, we could not demonstrate a difference between interventions delivered in early and later years of the curriculum.
trial registrationPROSPERO registration number: CRD42020160964 .
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