The experiences of pre-licensure or pre-registration health professional students and their educators in working with intra-professional teams: a systematic review of qualitative evidence protocol.

Abstract

REVIEW QUESTION / OBJECTIVE The aim of this review is to identify the experiences of pre-licensure or pre-registration health professional students and their educators of intra-professional teams. The objectives of this review are: 1. To identify the experiences of pre-licensure or pre-registration health professional students about learning how to work in intra-professional teams. 2. To identify the experiences of health professional educators about teaching intra-professional collaboration across categorical and/or regulatory boundaries of professional groups. The specific question for this review is: What are the experiences of health professional students and educators learning to work in intra-professional teams? INCLUSION CRITERIA Types of participants This review will consider studies that investigate pre-licensure health professional students' and educators’ experiences of intra-professional teams. We will define pre-licensure health professional students as those students enrolled in a health-related diploma or degree program leading to the writing of a licensure or registration exam prior to engaging in practice (i.e. regulated health care provider programs). Health related programs that will be included are those that have multiple points of entry-to-practice under one disciplinary domain. This could include (but will not be limited to) disciplines such as dentistry, nursing, medicine, occupational therapy, pharmacy, physiotherapy or social work. Thus, we will consider studies that include experiences of students and educators working in various disciplinary domains (such as dentistry, medicine, nursing, occupational therapy pharmacy or physiotherapy) focusing on regulated health professions which have more than one point of entry into practice for their students (e.g. baccalaureate degree or diploma). TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS