Table 1

Outcomes from interprofessional education (IPE)

Level 1
Reaction
Learners' views on the learning experience, its interprofessional nature, and its organisation, presentation, content, teaching methods and aspects of the institutional organisation, for example, time-tabling, materials, quality of teaching.
Level 2a
Modification of perceptions and attitudes
Changes in reciprocal attitudes or perceptions between participant groups towards people with dementia, their care and treatment.
Level 2b
Acquisition of knowledge and skills
Includes knowledge and skills linked to interprofessional collaboration. Examples include the acquisition of concepts, procedures and principles of interprofessional collaboration.
Level 3
Behavioural change
Identifies individuals’ transfer of interprofessional learning to their practice setting and their changed professional practice (eg, support for change of behaviour in the workplace).
Level 4a
Change in organisational practice
Wider changes in the organisation and delivery of care (eg, interprofessional collaboration and communication, teamwork and co-operative practice, costs to the health and/or social care service).
Level 4b
Benefits to patients/clients
Improvements in health or well-being of patients/carers (eg, health status, disease severity measures, progression of the disease, patient or family carers’ satisfaction, quality of life).
  • Adapted from Hammick et al (2007).21