title: Exposure and attitudes toward interprofessional teams: a three-year prospective study of longitudinal integrated clerkship versus rotation-based clerkship students.
abstract: This study explored exposure to, and attitudes toward, interprofessional (IP) teams between third-year longitudinal integrated clerkship (LIC) and traditional rotation-based clerkship (RBC) students at the University of Calgary medical school. Students completed a survey pre-post 32-week LIC or 6-week rural, regional or urban RBC family medicine rotations. Pre and post rotation surveys were completed by 213 (48%) students (LIC = 33/34; rural = 76/152; regional = 24/46; urban = 80/208). More LIC students (76%) reported participating on six or more IP teams than RBC students (rural = 38%; regional = 25%; urban = 21%). At pre rotation, the mean attitude to IP teams score of LIC and rural RBC students was high and did not differ. At post rotation, the mean attitude score of LIC students was significantly greater than the mean reported by rural RBC students. Only LIC students reported a significant pre-post rotation increase in attitude. Exposure to IP teams, possibly facilitated by a longer duration of rotation, appears to be an important factor in affecting attitude to IP teams.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Medicine, Distributed Learning and Rural Initiatives (DLRI), HMRB and.
authors.forename: Douglas L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Myhre
authors.forename: Wayne
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Woloschuk
authors.forename: Jeanette Somlak
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Pedersen
mesh_terms: D000416:Alberta; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D002982:Clinical Clerkship / Q000458:organization & administration*; D004504:Education, Medical, Undergraduate; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D033183:Interdisciplinary Communication; D008297:Male; D008505:Medical Staff, Hospital; D010348:Patient Care Team; D011446:Prospective Studies; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires