Syamsul Arifin, Ifa Hafifah

Abstract

Background: Collaboration among professional students were not optimal and lack of inter-‎professional awards for them. Interprofessional Education (IPE) in the Faculty of Medicine “X” ‎University has not developed yet. ‎Objectives: This research aims to analyze the needs of the development of IPE programs of ‎professional students of Faculty of Medicine “X” University.‎ Methods: This research used explorative qualitative research to assess the needs of informants ‎to the development of the IPE program. Analysis of research data used thematic analysis and ‎data triangulation. The informants were 14 people consisting of 10 informants from the nurse ‎and medical professional student and 4 informants from the clinical instructor of nurse and ‎medical professional student.‎ Results: This study found 4 themes, namely understanding the principles of IPE, how to ‎implement IPE, the challenges of implementing IPE, efforts to overcome the IPE challenges.‎ Conclusions: This study can develop an IPE program in order to achieve the learning objectives ‎of the professional students of Faculty of Medicine “X” University‎.