Interprofessional education between dentistry and pharmacy students: delivery, barriers and facilitating implementation

Abstract

Interprofessional education (IPE) between dentistry and pharmacy students is an approach to teach effective collaborative practice between a team of future health care providers. It relies on the support and motivation of students, staff and professionals to implement a variety of educational strategies and might involve evaluating student progression before and after delivery. Many barriers exist towards the implementation of IPE between dentistry and pharmacy health disciplines and outlining experiences across educational/clinical practice settings and possible solutions would assist in reducing those walls to realization. Implementation of IPE between pharmacy and dentistry undergraduate programs might lead to improved workplace collaborations and reduce medication errors, adverse events and increase in cross-referrals. Interprofessional education within undergraduate training forms the first steps towards reducing the burden on health care systems by enabling effective collaboration to improve patient outcomes. This narrative review describes IPE strategies used between pharmacy and dentistry undergraduate disciplines to enable collaboration, discusses the barriers and facilitators towards implementing IPE, and future directions for IPE education between these two disciplines.

Interprofessional Education Among Pharmacy, Medicine and Public Health Faculties: Perspective of Third Year Students

“…The IPE program was listed as an extra-curricular program. These factors were also listed as one of the obstacles to the IPE in the previous study [2]. The effectiveness of the IPE programs may be hampered by the students' lower intentions.…”

“…This notion contrasts with multi-professional education, in which students of two or more professions learn in a comparable manner. A previous study presented that IPE can support interdisciplinary collaboration and teamwork, reduce barriers and stereotypes among the multidisciplinary collaboration and teamwork, and decrease barriers and stereotypes among health professionals [1,2]. IPE is a crucial strategy for students in health programs to get ready to start practicing.…”

“…Due to the effort and numerous constraints among the study programs, IPE is growing in importance in Indonesian universities. Some of the obstacles that could arise during the IPE implementation were curriculum, timetable, workload of facilitators, location and the students' participation [2]. The pharmacy curriculum is quite strict, and the laboratory practices account for most of the "students" performance.…”

Readiness for Interprofessional Education Among Health Profession Students in a University in the United Arab Emirates

“…Overall, the study finding showed students to be in favor of IPE and demonstrated a high readiness to practice interprofessional collaboration, like other studies reported elsewhere. [35][36][37][38] Considering that healthcare organizations are currently focusing on equity, diversity, and inclusion 39 it is important to explore the role of the gender gap on interprofessional collaboration. In a study, the authors argued that poor teamwork and collaboration was a major contributing factor to surgical complications and assessed how gender affects interprofessional practice in the operating room.…”

Implementing a dental and pharmacy interprofessional telehealth simulation between two universities

“…Its goals were to: (1) present an authentic patient scenario using a multimedia approach, (2) identify an online learning environment for communication and collaboration, and (3) facilitate the understanding of roles and responsibilities in addressing a state health initiative. [1][2][3]…”