“…There are many potential reasons for this; IPE assessments are IPE is still being endorsed within professional curricula specifications and agreedrelatively new and is often not fully integrated within a curriculum and as such fails to be aligned within the assessment processes by professional bodies; new assessments take time to be endorsed within profession-specific programmes; ; IPE cohorts are large and the management of the assessment (s) are resource intensive as IPE cohorts are large; the different professions adhere to different professional body requirements underpinned bythe different valuesbases across the spectrum of health and social care programmes makend consistency and comparability of these assessments challenging is difficult; IPE is often presented as learning about professionalism which is difficult to assess although frameworks do exist (McNair, Stone, Sims & Curtis, 2005); many IPE assessments are formative and not valued by students in the same way as summative profession-specific assessments (Barr, Helme, D'Avray, 2011). In addition to this, few Of central importance is the idea that to be true adhere to IPE values and involve, patients/service users should be involved in the planning, design and in giving feedback process (McKeown, Malihi-Shoja, & Downe, 2010)and yet there are few examples of patient involvement in IPE assessment processes (; Anderson, Ford and& Thorpe, 2011).…”