Examining the perceived impact of an ethics workshop on interprofessional values and teamwork.

This study aimed to evaluate the perceived impact of an ethics-based IPE workshop designed for professional phase healthcare students enrolled in athletic training, health management systems, occupational therapy, physical therapy, physician assistant studies, and speech-language pathology programmes at one university. A pre/post-test cohort study was conducted to evaluate the impact of the workshop on interprofessional values and teamwork. Findings from the 61 students who completed both pre- and post-programme evaluation surveys suggest that the ethics-based workshop was successful in improving perceived confidence as related to the workshop objectives and strengthened positive perceptions of IPE as evaluated by the Student Perceptions of Interprofessional Clinical Education-Revised (SPICE-R). Analysis of responses to open-ended reflection questions after the workshop suggest that student participants perceived changes in understanding related to multiple areas of IPE. These results suggest that an ethics-based workshop using case-based collaborative pedagogy may be an effective mechanism for delivery of IPE-oriented information resulting in greater student confidence and understanding of IPE competencies. PMID: 28753083 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Journal of Interprofessional Care - Category: Health Management Tags: J Interprof Care Source Type: research