Abstract

Interprofessional education is an approach to educating and training students and practitioners from different professions to work in a collaborative manner. The purpose of this study was to examine attitudes towards interprofessional in readiness for interprofessional learning scale was measured with respect to how their influence in clinical situations in Sri Lanka. The questionnaires were sent though post or emails to the consenting participants as per their suggestions of most convenient ways during January 2018 to academics in Sri Lanka representing all faculties in the country including medicine, nursing and physical therapy educational programmes. There were 46% replied and hundred percent of respondents agreed that it was important to patients would ultimately benefit by provide interdisciplinary learning opportunities. The results of this study suggest that a favorable perception of both interprofessional teamwork and interprofessional education exists amongst academic administrators of Sri Lankan health professional education programs.

Keywords

• Attitude
• Interprofessional
• education
• relationship

Perceptions of Academia of Different Health Professions Towards Inter Professional Education in Sri Lanka

Abstract

Interprofessional education is an approach to educating and training students and practitioners from different professions to work in a collaborative manner. The purpose of this study was to examine attitudes towards interprofessional in readiness for interprofessional learning scale was measured with respect to how their influence in clinical situations in Sri Lanka. The questionnaires were sent though post or emails to the consenting participants as per their suggestions of most convenient ways during January 2018 to academics in Sri Lanka representing all faculties in the country including medicine, nursing and physical therapy educational programmes. There were 46% replied and hundred percent of respondents agreed that it was important to patients would ultimately benefit by provide interdisciplinary learning opportunities. The results of this study suggest that a favorable perception of both interprofessional teamwork and interprofessional education exists amongst academic administrators of Sri Lankan health professional education programs.

Keywords

• Interprofessional education
• Attitudes
• Interprofessional relationship

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