Evaluation of the Interprofessional Education Day 2019 / Evaluation des Interprofessional Education Day 2019

Interprofessional education (IPE) means that students from different professions learn with, from and about each other. In 2019, an interprofessional education day (IPE day) was held in the canton of Zurich with 68 students and eight lecturers over eight lessons with the aim of improving interprofessional competencies. Students from six health care disciplines and PhD students with different professional backgrounds had to work together in groups on two cases with standardised patients. A pre-post online survey was conducted to evaluate the IPE day. It included self-assessment using items from the Zürcher InterProfessionelle AusbildungsStation (ZIPAS ^®) competency framework and the Interprofessional Collaborative Competency Attainment Survey (ICCAS) as well as open-ended questions about the IPE day. ZIPAS ^® competency framework and ICCAS were evaluated quantitatively, while the open-ended questions were evaluated qualitatively. There were statistically significant improvements in most of the subscales of the ZIPAS ^® competency framework but only in one third of the ICCAS subscales. In addition, the qualitative analysis of the statements showed improvements in collaboration in particular, as well as positive statements on the exchange with students from other professions, whereby many students attributed great importance to the topic of interprofessionality and have already focused their attention on the future and their everyday lives. The IPE day could be a good method to improve the collaboration and communication with students from other professions in the health sector.