Creating a Ground-breaking Interprofessional Education Program for Optimal Healthcare Delivery

Critical adjustments are needed in the health professions curricula to produce prepared graduates for the workforce. Our goal was to consider the applicability and use of the interprofessional education program (IPD) design for the Department of Health Sciences at North-West University in South Africa. This research used an ordered multidisciplinary design to create an IPD curriculum for a South African medical faculty. To summarize the global organization, development, and execution processes of IPD programs, a scoping review was done. An examination of IPD programs from institutions across five continents came next. The viewpoints of worldwide specialists on the creation and execution of IPD programs were subsequently investigated in a qualitative study. After that, the setting of universities was examined, and a draft IPD program was developed utilizing the data compiled from all earlier investigations. Faculty members were given the program to review and comment using an insignificant group technique. The IPD program development process was established in ten parts for the scoping study. Through each phase, manual and to-do lists were supplied for the subjective analysis of documents to assist educators in conceptualizing, creating, executing, and reviewing their IPD programs. Four themes were found during the personal exploratory, descriptive design transcript analysis. To prepare for full academic incorporation of the IPD into the teaching staff of Health care programs throughout subsequent development of the health science curricula, a three-year option IPD program was created. The established alternative 3-year IPD program will act as an example of how a credit-bearing IPD doctorate can eventually be incorporated into the academic programs of the Department of Health Sciences