Interprofessional learning (IPL) is an approach that teaches students diverse disciplines to communicate with each other about their professional knowledge in order to acquire a more complex one understanding of the current situation. According to WHO definition of IPE “it’s a process between two or more professionals learn about from, and with one another to permit effective association and enhance health outcome. The aim of this study was to measure perception and readiness towards IPE among different health care disciplines. A cross-sectional study was done with two hundred and eighteen post graduate nursing, public health, physiotherapy, and basic medical sciences students from September, 2020 to January, 2021 at Khyber Medical University Peshawar Pakistan. Convenient sampling technique was used to collect data. The Readiness for Inter-Professional Learning Scale (RIPLS) and Interdisciplinary Education Perception Scale (IEPS) were used to measure the readiness and perception of students regarding inter-professional leaning. The data were analyzed using software Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) (Version 23). The RIPLS was completed by a total of 218 participants (response rate 100%, 61 Nursing students 28%, 51 physiotherapy students 23.4%, 53 public health students 24.3%, and 53 basic medical sciences students 24.3%). As shown in Table 1.1, the majority of respondents were male (51.4%) followed by female (48.6%). Most of the respondents were aged with a mean score of 27.92 ± 3.195. Moreover, majority of respondents have experience less than 5years (75.2%) and (22.8%) has experience above than 5years. Value of perception and readiness in Shapiro-Wilk is .000 which shows that the data variable is not normally distributed, whereas in correlation of students towards interprofessional learning by applying Spearman’ rho test: Students’ perception has strong positive correlation with their readiness, p value (.000). Also students’ readiness has strong positive correlation with their perception towards interprofessional learning. This study was to explore the readiness and perception of students towards interprofessional education in different health care students. IPL is beneficial for students to know other professionals to work together for teamwork and collaboration and it also increase communication between different health care professional and patients.

Keywords. IPL, RIPLS, IEPS, Basic Medical Sciences,

Highlights

• The most important findings of this study was subscale of roles and responsibility domain question “the function of the nurses and therapists is mainly to provide support for doctors” response of MSN students strongly disagree followed by Basic medical sciences students, Public health students, and physiotherapy students.
• Interprofessional education is very important and valuable to develop a willingness to work with others who health at work is a very important asset especially realizing what science has done today cooperative health cooperative discussion.