Interprofessional education during an autism session.

Interprofessional education (IPE) gained a strong foothold in the beginning of the twenty-first century as an effort to improve care to patients through enhanced teamwork. The aim of this study was to compare attitudes and experiences of the learners, which included graduate students, physicians in training, and practicing healthcare professionals, before and after an interprofessional clinical practice (IPCP) six-h autism didactic and experiential training session. The training session consisted of a 1-h lecture on Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), a 2-h behavior review meeting consisting of four different case study discussions among the learners, a 1-h lunch, a 1-h therapy session with children diagnosed with ASD, and a 1-h discussion among the learners.