Background Professional teams are becoming more central to health care as evidence
emerges that effective teamwork enhances the quality of patient care. Currently, health care …

Much of the literature on interprofessional education (IPE) is descriptive, anecdotal, and
atheoretical. To advance both practice and research in this field, IPE needs to develop …

Professional identity impacts the workforce at personal, interpersonal and profession levels
however there is a lack of reviews of professional identity research across practising health …

The current policy agenda purports the need for education establishments and practice
agencies to join together to promote interprofessional working. It was within this policy …

Effective interprofessional working, which is widely considered as essential to high-quality
health care, is influenced by the attitudes of health care professionals towards their own and …

Healthcare systems are at times still viewed as siloed performances of single professions,
wherein some groups hold hierarchical positions based on their expertise and prestige …

This paper is the first of a two-part series. It presents a research study that aimed to provide a
more contextual description of the commonly applied definition of interprofessional …

The healthcare setting is a rich learning environment for students to experience
interprofessional working (IPW) and interprofessional education (IPE). However …

The article draws on an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)-funded research
project that aimed to investigate the reality behind the rhetoric of “joined up thinking”. The …

There has been limited research on the effect of interprofessional education (IPE) over time
on the attitudes of undergraduate health and human service professional students. Previous …