Abstract
Health care educators in the practice setting are responsible for providing education to frontline staff and require knowledge and skills to interact with interprofessional health care providers and teach content in an effective way. Interprofessional education opportunities for health care educators in the practice setting may be helpful in preparing educators to meet the needs of frontline staff, yet the extant state of literature on this topic has not been recently synthesized. In this integrative review, we aimed to explore what is known about interprofessional education opportunities offered to health care educators who are responsible for educating other health care professionals in practice settings and assess how these education opportunities were described and evaluated in the literature. We conducted an integrative literature review following the methodology put forth by Toronto and Remington. Of the 3690 publications identified, 30 met our inclusion criteria. Overall, the publications lacked rigorous methodology. Education interventions varied in content, duration, and teaching strategies. Key findings were identified: (1) educator satisfaction and content relevance, (2) impact on knowledge, skills, and confidence, (3) impact on teaching practice, (4) impact on clinical practice, (5) impact on interprofessional competencies and attitudes, (6) challenges to implementing interprofessional education opportunities, and (7) facilitators to implementing interprofessional education opportunities. Although interprofessional education opportunities for health care educators in the practice setting may be beneficial to educators and the frontline staff they serve, more rigorous research is needed to understand how these opportunities can influence teaching and clinical practice.
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