title: Preparing students to work effectively in interprofessional health and social care teams.
abstract: Interprofessional education (IPE) has 'learning to work effectively in interprofessional teams' as one of its central learning outcomes. Whilst much is made in IPE of allocating health and social care students into interprofessional teams and setting them a task to complete, it has  proved difficult to find a fair and equitable method of assessing how effective each individual has been in contributing to the task. This difficulty is compounded when the module is delivered predominantly online. This paper describes the recent push to establish meaningful educational outcomes  for those involved in delivering IPE to pre-registration health and social care students. It then describes the use of a web-based peer assessment tool (Web PA) developed at Loughborough and Hull Universities (UK) which has been adapted by Glasgow Caledonian University (UK) for assessing the  outcome of contributing effectively to IPE-related online group tasks. The paper outlines how the process of web-based peer assessment operates in theory and how it has been received in practice. An illustration is given that shows how the process successfully discriminates between those that  are working effectively in interprofessional teams and those that are not. The value of the process is discussed.
authors: School of Health and Life Sciences, Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow, UK. Keith.Stevenson@gcu.ac.uk
authors: Keith
authors: K
authors: Stevenson
authors: Chris
authors: C
authors: Seenan
authors: Gordon
authors: G
authors: Morlan
authors: Wendy
authors: W
authors: Smith
mesh_terms: D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D006801:Humans; D010348:Patient Care Team; D012947:Social Work / Q000193:education*