Interprofessional Education Case Study

Develop a Problem Statement
Healthcare professional students are devoted to learning their profession, so they can provide quality healthcare to their communities. One responsibility of a healthcare professional is to work with other healthcare professionals that are outside the professional’s chosen field. Healthcare teams that are able to work together have a greater impact of healthcare outcomes (Infante et al., 2015). Educators must assist students in developing team-building skills. Healthcare educators are expected to teach students the skills and behaviors in order to work in a team atmosphere (Sevin, Hale, Brown, & McAuely, 2016). Most healthcare educational programs are taught independently, and this design does not promote collaborating with other healthcare educational programs (Lapkin, Levett-Jones, & Gilligan, 2013). One way of accomplishing this is to incorporate interprofessional education into healthcare programs (Infante et al., 2015).
Interprofessional education is students who are from two or more professions that are
The standard states that graduates must be competent in communicating and working with other healthcare professionals to support overall patient care and should be able to recognize the roles of other healthcare professionals, and they should have opportunities to collaborate with other healthcare professionals (Commission on Dental Accreditation, 2017). Many dental health programs have minimal interaction with the other healthcare programs (Infante et al., 2015). In order to adequately comply with the Commission on Dental Accreditation standard, there is a need to examine how to incorporate and assess interprofessional education into the dental health programs, examples of interprofessional education that can be used, barriers to overcome, the benefits of implementing, and attitudes of the faculty and