Measuring interprofessional competency of medical school students who completed multistep, structured, four-year interprofessional education program

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Background: Medical, pharmaceutical sciences, and nursing departments of ChibaUniversity attended a structured interprofessional education (IPE) program. This preclinical program com- prises four steps, parallel to the school year. After completing this program, medical students partici- pate in clinical clerkship for 2 years. To evaluate the effect of the IPE program, we need to assess the students' IP performance in clerkship. Method: Chiba IPCompetency Scale (CICS29)is used to measure the IP competency at the time of graduation of both 2011 and 2012 medical students. The 2011 graduates had notattended the IPE program, whereas the 2012 graduates had completed the four-year IPE program before clerk-ship. Results: The 2012 graduates had higher scores in all 6 subscales of the CICS29. Conclusions: These results indicate that the preclinical IPE program is effective not only in building preclinical readiness for IP attitude but also promotes IP performance during clinical clerkship.