Applying integrative situational cases into the effectiveness of interprofessional education programs

During the medical professionals receiving their education, the educational facilities and the environment are almost isolated, and the understanding of the related clinical professionals is limited. During the student period, interactive learning opportunities among different professionals shall be established to enhance mutual understanding and facilitate teamwork after entering the workplace. Therefore, this study explores the effectiveness of teamwork in senior nursing students via investigating the efficiency of Truku tribal’s integrative situational cases into inter-professional education workshop. Taking the inter-professional education workshop model as an intervention strategy, senior college students from the Department of Medicine, Physical Therapy and Nursing were invited to participate in the 4-h workshop, before and after the first class. Employing the team-based self-designed questionnaire to collect the differences in cultural care and teamwork cognitive ability before and after the workshop participation, the SPSS 22.0 version software was used for descriptive and inferential statistical data analysis. A total of 45 valid pre-test questionnaires were collected, with a 100% recovery rate; and 43 valid post-test questionnaires were collected, with a 95.56% response rate. Independent t test or two-sample t-test was used for “the workshop of the intervention on the integration of the Truku member’s health cases into inter-professional education”, the teamwork ability (t = − 3.27, p