ABSTRACT

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Believing in increasing the effectiveness of patient care through collaboration and team work has led to special emphasis on the need to prepare all students of professional medical group through inter- professional learning. This study was carried out to determine readiness in the students of Kurdistan University of medical sciences for inter professional education and related factors.

METHODS: This study was cross-sectional. The studied population was students of Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences that 700 persons of them were selected and studied. A two-part questionnaire including demographics characteristics and 19 questions about inter professional education was used. The data were analyzed by using SPSS 20.

FINDINGS: The mean overall score of the students' viewpoint was 70.84±9.94. The highest mean score among the surveyed items, was related to the item of "Common learning before graduation helps me to better focus on the team work" and the lowest mean score was related to the item of "my skills in solving clinical problems enhance only through along with my classmates". There was a difference between the viewpoint of undergraduate and graduate students and this difference was statistically significant (p=0.03).

CONCLUSION: The results of the present study revealed that inter- professional education is very important and demographic characteristics have little involvement.