Moving beyond superficial communication to collaborative communication: learning processes and outcomes of interprofessional education in actual medical settings.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The current study sought to understand the learning outcomes experienced by students and to explain their learning process in detail using interpretive data analysis.

Methods

A qualitative study examined students who participated in a multidisciplinary course in a ward. This study investigated latent meanings rather than factual information, using an interpretive paradigm. Data were collected via focus groups and analyzed using Steps for Coding and Theorization (SCAT).

Results

Students in the Assembly IV trial (interprofessional education in actual medical settings) experienced a process of transition from a competing (exclusive) mode to a mutual-understanding mode when communicating with people in other professions, and they acquired the perspective of an

SUBMITTER: Ito M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8761828 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature