Interprofessional education challenges learned from literature reviews before the COVID-19 epidemic

Abstract

[Aim] With the coronavirus infection, exchanges were severely restricted, and the situation of education and medical care changed completely. Education includes professional education and interprofessional education （IPE）, both of which are indispensable. Therefore, through a literature review on IPE before the coronavirus infection, the issues of IPE in the coronavirus infection were organized. [Method] We searched for “（Collaboration in other fields / TH or interprofessional education / AL） and （PT = original paper）” using Ichushi （Search date: August 20, 2020）. We considered issues by study design. [Results] 88 studies, 7 literature studies, 26 observational studies, 4 intervention studies, 3 scale studies, 18 activity reports, 21 qualitative studies, and 8 descriptive studies. Many of the authors belong to educational institutions, and the main survey was for current students. [Conclusion] IPE remained in pre-graduate education and could not reach post-graduate education. In coronavirus, we need a place where we can learn IPE using online tools.