Last update:
22-Mar-2023

Interprofessional relationships and education provide a great opportunity for more effective management of healthcare organizations. Traditional education provided by health science programs worldwide appear not to have been sufficiently effective in promoting interprofessional collaboration, but in the last decade, interesting discussions have taken place concerning developing innovative interprofessional educational systems. Such systems encompass healthcare employees from a variety of different professional backgrounds. Interprofessional education (IPE) and interprofessional collaborative practice (IPCP) can develop the attitudes, knowledge, skills and behaviors of healthcare professionals towards effective collaboration. Healthcare provision involves a highly complex system of interrelationships between many stakeholders that can be managed more effectively by integrating IPE and IPCP in health care, and training healthcare professionals appropriately. In addition, in order to achieve positive patient outcomes, interprofessional teams should be relationship-centered. Healthcare management should focus on the quality of the experience of the employees in the workplace and the quality of life (QoL) experience of the patients during their hospitalization or participation in healthcare programs. As many variables need to be considered that influence the quality of interprofessional training, a theoretical framework is necessary for exploration of the most important factors involved in interprofessional education.

Key words: Healthcare education, Healthcare management, Human resource management, Interprofessional collaborative practice, Interprofessional education.