How do we educate medical students interprofessionally about patient safety? A scoping review.

Medical education has an important role in developing attitudes, behaviors and cultures that support safe care. Increasingly, however, research has argued for a more interprofessional approach to be taken. This scoping review examines the design and impact of interprofessional education interventions involving medical students that focus on patient safety.

Learning from interprofessional education: A cautionary tale.

Background: Interprofessional education (IPE) is time consuming to develop and sustain and presents many logistical and practical challenges to curriculum developers. Drawing on findings from an evaluation study of an IPE pilot, this paper brings new insights into both positive implications and potentially negative consequences of delivering large scale IPE.

Objective: The aim of the study was to evaluate a large scale IPE pilot delivered to students in the first year of their training.