title: Interprofessional workshop to improve mutual understanding between pharmacy and medical students.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To measure changes in pharmacy and medical students' physician-pharmacist collaboration scores resulting from a workshop designed to promote understanding of the others' roles in health care.
  
  
  METHODS
  More than 88% of first-year pharmacy (n = 215) and medical (n = 205) students completed the Scale of Attitudes Toward Physician-Pharmacist Collaboration on 3 occasions in order to establish a baseline of median scores and to determine whether the scores were influenced by an interprofessional workshop.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Participation in the interprofessional workshop increased pharmacy students' collaboration scores above baseline (p=0.02) and raised the scores of medical students on the education component of the collaboration survey instrument (p=0.015). The collaboration scores of pharmacy students greatly exceeded those of medical students (p<0.0001).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  A workshop designed to foster interprofessional understanding between pharmacy and medical students raised the physician-pharmacist collaboration scores of both. Crucial practical goals for the future include raising the collaboration scores of medical students to those of pharmacy students.
authors.affiliation: Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine, Midwestern University, Downers Grove, IL 60515, USA. lvanw@midwestern.edu
authors.forename: Lon J
authors.initials: LJ
authors.lastname: Van Winkle
authors.forename: Bryan C
authors.initials: BC
authors.lastname: Bjork
authors.forename: Nalini
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Chandar
authors.forename: Susan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Cornell
authors.forename: Nancy
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Fjortoft
authors.forename: Jacalyn M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Green
authors.forename: Sophie
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: La Salle
authors.forename: Sean M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Lynch
authors.forename: Susan M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Viselli
authors.forename: Paulette
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Burdick
mesh_terms: D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D003625:Data Collection; D004501:Education, Medical / Q000379:methods*; D004512:Education, Pharmacy / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D024382:Professional Role; D013337:Students, Medical / Q000523:psychology*; D013339:Students, Pharmacy / Q000523:psychology*
keywords: attitudes; health profession students; interdisciplinary education; interprofessional education; medical students; pharmacy students