Introduction:

Interprofessional education encourages professionals from various disciplines to work together to improve the patient's therapeutic approach.

Aim

To assess the performance of physiotherapy and medicine students on interprofessional work during a simulation scenario for the management of cardiac rehabilitation with a standardized patient.

Subjects and methods:

A total of 331 medical and physical therapy students participated. A simulation scenario on cardiac rehabilitation, a skills checklist, and opinion survey were designed. Teams made up of students from both degrees were formed and percentages of both instruments were calculated.

Results:

For medical students, the item with the highest response was 1 (82.3%), while the item with the lowest response was item 6 (27.8%). For physiotherapy students, item 7 had the highest percentage (100%), while the one with the lowest percentage was item 6 (16.7%). The favorable opinions were obtained in a 90% rating between the totally agree and agree.

Conclusion:

It is required to design scenarios and instruments that allow evaluating interprofessional work and documenting the results, as well as the development of longitudinal studies that show the effectiveness of interprofessional education in health professionals.

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