title: Students' approaches to learning in clinical interprofessional context.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Health care professionals are supposed to work in teams. Students in health care need to learn how to collaborate during their undergraduate education. Interprofessional learning environments, where collaboration is necessary, may be differently accepted by students depending on their approach to learning.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  We investigated health care students' evaluations of interprofessional clinical training in relation to their study orientations.
  
  
  METHODS
  The participants were 369 students (40 occupational therapy-, 85 medical-, 52 physiotherapy-, and 192 nursing students) attending an IPE course at a Swedish University Hospital. Data were collected by questionnaires measuring orientations to studying and attitudes towards the clinical training and the IPE concept before and after the training. The response rate was 77 %. Study groups were formed by a cluster analysis on the basis of the students' learning orientations.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Three clusters were found: Low collaboration-, Collaborative Constructivist-, and Cookbook groups. These clusters were related to different professions and how students perceived their interprofessional learning environment.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Study orientations appear to play a role in the way students evaluate interprofessional training. This should be taken into account in instruction. Students with a 'Cookbook' approach to learning showed an increased understanding of interprofessional collaboration after the course.
authors: Karolinska Institutet, Sweden. uffe.hylin@sodersjukhuset.se
authors: Uffe
authors: U
authors: Hylin
authors: Kirsti
authors: K
authors: Lonka
authors: Sari
authors: S
authors: Ponzer
mesh_terms: D003258:Consumer Behavior; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D004501:Education, Medical; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D033183:Interdisciplinary Communication; D007858:Learning; D008297:Male; D013337:Students, Medical / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires