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Educ Strategy Med Sci 2014, 7(5): 301-308 Back to browse issues page
Readiness of Postgraduate Health Sciences Students for Interprofessional Education
Vafadar Z.1 , Vanaki Z. 2, Ebadi A.3 , Seyyed Bagher Maddah S.4
1- “Health Management Research Center” and “Medical-Surgical Department, Nursing Faculty”, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
2- Nursing Department, Medical Sciences Faculty, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran , vanaki_z@modares.ac.ir
3- Management Department, Nursing Faculty, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
4- Management Department, Nursing Faculty, University of Welfare Sciences & Rehabilitation, Tehran, Iran
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Aims: Interprofessional education is a new approach to empower health sciences learners to provide comprehensive collaborative team care for promotion health consequences of the clients. This study was done aimed to evaluate the readiness of Health Sciences postgraduate students for Interprofessional education and learning.

Methods: This cross-sectional study was done on 500 postgraduate students of different majors in health sciences using simple and achievable sampling in 2012-13. Data gathered using Readiness for Inter Professional Learning Scale (RIPLS) with the reliability 0.83. Data analyzed by SPSS 18 and descriptive statistics (mean and percent) and One-way ANOVA.

Findings: The total mean of Health Sciences postgraduate students' readiness for Interprofessional education was above the average. There was no significant difference between professional groups in terms of readiness for Interprofessional education (p>0.05). But in the Nursing group the mean scores in all scale and subscales was more than other groups.

Conclusion: Health Sciences postgraduate students' readiness for Interprofessional education is more than the average level. 

Keywords: Education, Learning, Health, Education, Graduate
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Article Type: Original Research | Subject: New Methods of Teaching in Medical Sciences
Received: 2014/06/28 | Accepted: 2014/08/14 | Published: 2014/10/28


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