Implementing of Interprofessional Education into Health Professional Education

Abstract

Nowadays, healthcare providers of all disciplines are faced with complexity of health system. Solo professions cannot response to this current situation. Healthcare provider need to collaborate with other professions, local sector, and community members. Therefore, the preparation of students to have competencies in knowledge, skills, and attitudes, in order to be able to work collaboratively is crucial. Human resource development transform from the current curriculum framework to be competency-based training. This is done by focusing on the outcomes of education, designing interactive activities between instructors and students from other disciplines, and conducting a systematical evaluation to achieve desirable competencies. This article presents the definition of interprofessional education (IPE), the significance of IPE, learning outcome of IPE, the steps of introducing IPE in practice, and the recommendations in the implementation of IPE. A goal is to be able to demonstrate that the graduate student is able to mobilize knowledge, engage critical thinking, and conduct themselves in an ethical manner to work as a healthcare team based on the concept of patient and population-centered to response on complexity of healthcare system and disruptive technology effectively.