Background: Interprofessional education (IPE) is an essential component of pre-licensure nursing education. It allows students to learn from and collaborate with health professionals from different disciplines and prepares them for clinical practice. The aim of this review is to identify best practices in clinical-based IPE for pre-licensure nursing students, describe the context in which clinical-based IPE activities are held, and explore methods of evaluating clinical-based IPE courses and events. Design: We searched three scientific databases (Embase, CINAHL, and PubMed) using terms…

We hear routinely from groups of interprofessional students that they want organic opportunities to interact and "just get to know one another" before being expected to work together during formal interprofessional education (IPE) events. In response, our IPE collaborative, which is a joint effort between Johns Hopkins Schools of Medicine, Nursing and Public Health and the Notre Dame of Maryland School of Pharmacy, developed an introductory "social" IPE event that precedes other IPE programming that our students participate in during their respective professional programs. The goal of our IPE…