Overviewing the Implementation and Assessing Students Perception Regarding Interprofessional Education in Faculty of Medicine, Udayana University, Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia

Introduction: As a health-based educational institution which aims to generate the medical and health students with highly in professionalism, managerial, and leadership capability to support the health improvement in this global era, Faculty of Medicine Udayana University has held a strategy through the implementation of Interprofessional Education (IPE) among second year medical and health students in 2015. Methodology: A cross-sectional study was performed involving 244 out of 484 students who were distributed among seven different health studies (medical, nursing, physiotherapy, psychology, public health, dentistry, and pharmacy). All students were divided into 48 groups to conduct IPE in Peguyangan Village, North Denpasar. The selected students were asked to fill out the questionnaire and one way ANOVA are performed to determine the mean perception on IPE in each study programs. Results: The implementation of IPE is divided into three steps. IPE-1 is the initial program for 3rd semester students which mainly concerned about "Effective Communication." Then, IPE-2 is implemented by 4th and 5th semester students which mainly focused on "Problem Identification and Priority." The final program of IPE-3 is continued during 6th and 7th semester which required them to implement "Intervention and Monitoring Evaluation." Based on the assessment, 29 (11,9%), 45 (18,4%), and 170 (69,7%) students' perception were bad, average, and good, respectively about this IPE program. The mean value was 27.66-(SD 4.137) which classified as good (p = 0.001). Conclusion: The perception of IPE had a good response among medical and health students. Nevertheless, the strategies to strengthen the implementation of IPE are still needed to make it more comprehensive and beneficial.