A mixed-methods evaluation of interprofessional education in palliative care: changes in student attitudes towards health professions.

ABSTRACT: Background: Future health care increasingly requires interprofessional thinking and decision-making which should be taught during medical study and vocational training. Against this backdrop, the Medical Faculty at TU Dresden developed an elective course on "Interprofessional Palliative Medicine" in which medical students and trainees in different health professions have been taught together since the 2017 summer semester. An extensive and simultaneous course evaluation conducted in the 2019 summer semester and 2019/20 winter semester investigated if and how strongly attendees' perceptions of interprofessional collaboration had changed as a result of the elective course. Method: The course evaluations included quantitative pre- and post-questions on a questionnaire (n=50) cov

SUBMITTER: Borchers P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8493842 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature