Designing And Piloting Of Online Interprofessional Education Programme For Medical Students: A-Mixed Method Study

Abstract

Interprofessional education (IPE) is a strategy used to prepare a future interprofessional collaboration teams. This research aims to design an online interprofessional program for  Medical School. This study uses a mixed-method approach.  The first stage of qualitative research (structured interviews and FGD) on leadership elements, 2 lecturers, and 5 students from each study program generated 14 themes and 47 sub-themes which were explained into module learning outcomes, study topics, learning activities, and characteristics online IPE program. Module evaluation was carried out by examining differences in 252 students' perceptions of pre- and post-module using IEPS (Interprofessional Education Percepstion’s Scale) questionare. The results of the bivariate Wilcoxon test showed that there was a significant difference in perception scores regarding post-module compared to pre-module (p=0.00). There is a positive difference, obtained of post-module scores is greater than the pre-module scores obtained by 141 people. The increase in perception scores can also be seen from the results of the bivariate analysis of each study program. This research shows that the implementation of the online IPE module has succeeded in increasing students' perceptions toward interprofessional collaboration.  This is an alternative solution that can be considered for interprofessional learning further.