IPE – evidence, networks, professional development and toolkits

Looking for the latest evidence on clinical placements in Interprofessional Education contexts?

 Try these freely available databases: 

• PubMed
• Google Scholar
• Access the Australian and New Zealand Interprofessional Education and Practice Resource Repository

Try these IPE specific journals:

• Journal of interprofessional care 
• Focus on health professional education 
• Journal of interprofessional education & practice 
• International journal of practice-based learning in health and social care 
• Advances in health sciences education 

Try these key words:

• Interprofessional education
• interprofessional learning
• interprofessional outcomes (health)
• students
• interdisciplinary study
• collaborative care
• team-based practice

Some useful resources to guide your appraisal:

University of South Australia Critical Appraisal Tools to assist health professionals critique a variety of study types.

Learn more about the Impact Factors of the journals you select 

Don’t forget to search the grey literature:

Reports, data/statistics, policies or books published by appropriate organisations or government bodies may also provide you with useful information.  It is best to search these websites directly or, as often this type of information is published in ‘PDF’ format, used the advanced search function in Google settings to specify Adobe Acrobate PDF (.pdf) as the file type for your search.

Remember to consider the credibility, reliability, evidence used, perspective/bias and purpose when screening the grey literature you have located.

_{With Acknowledgements to Griffith University – Library and Learning Services}