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Introduction: Teaching strategy for nursing students needs to be varied for the future preparation and to increase confidence level in delivering quality care to patients. Interprofessional learning (IPL) is a way to encourage collaboration among health professional teams that will drive them to collaborate with, from and about other professions and thus, it allow students to have greater knowledge. Currently, many students are unable to learn together during clinical posting due to professional boundaries.

The fundamental issue facing interprofessional education hinges on using an appropriate theory, which supports testable hypotheses about the collaboration inherent in interprofessional education and interprofessional collaboration.

This is a draft version of the following publication: Gilbert, J.H.V. Resolving the Barriers to Interprofessional Education - One University’s Perspective. Meeting Report, International Symposium 2000: Educating for Quality Healthcare. It is available for download with the permission of the author.

The Romanow Commission (November, 2002) may be an event of the past, but in a number of different venues the work needed to set in place changes recommended by Romanow is just beginning. The most visible is the formation of the national Health Council, announced in December 2003, to be chaired by Michael Decter.

Looks like there is a lot in the interprofessional literature on assessing the practioners or students perspective on IPE, but I was wondering if anyone had suggestions about survey tools that assess the patients' perspective on interprofessionalism whether in the context of percieved teamwork or communication skills.

Not sure if there are validated surveys on patient perspective of teamwork/communication, but I am sharing two links below to surveys that touch on these issues, but it would be great to hear what others have used or come across.