Innovation in IPE: let the students teach each other

Authors: Jonathan Berry and Anne O’Brien, School of Pharmacy and School of Health and Rehabilitation, Keele University Background: Interprofessional education (IPE) has long been mooted as a method to improve teamwork, collaboration and clinical outcomes in healthcare (Barr et al 2011). Poorly designed IPE has the potential to reinforce stereotypes and power relationships between physicians and other healthcare professionals (Kuper and Whitehead 2012, Reeves and Van Schalk 2012). Students can become more sceptical of IPE the further they progress with their undergraduate studies (Pollard et al 2005). We aimed to design a teaching experience that would negate this scepticism.