Successful implementation of interprofessional education: A pedagogical design perspective

Interprofessional collaboration (IPC) is crucial within healthcare teams that must provide safe and quality care to their patients. Competent professionals in this area offer better care and contribute to a medical culture where IPC and teamwork are valued. To become competent, they must be adequately trained. The literature describes that, unfortunately, collaboration training is uneven across professions. Interprofessional education (IPE) could fill this educational gap but remains challenging to implement. This article aims to present ten clear and concise considerations to implementing IPE initiatives successfully, following a well-described pedagogical designing process. After reading, the clinician-educator will be informed of the newest evidence in IPE as well as the common pitfalls to avoid. From the starting point of a recent synthesis article on IPE, several additional syntheses, analyses, and recommendations articles were consulted and synthesized. From that, the findings are organized according to the "ADDIE" model, a flexible methodology used in pedagogical design through iterative cycles in context. The phases of "ADDIE" are analysis, design, development, implementation, and evaluation. According to these phases, the considerations will be presented to allow the reader to apply them "step by step" in their educational planning process. Ten considerations are presented, from the needs analysis, stakeholders and Faculty involvement, composition of the design team, selection of students and types of learning activity, the role of reflexivity, training of facilitators, supervision, and the continuous improvement process. Taken together, these will contribute to highlighting the essential nature of training in collaboration in modern professionalizing programs.