Quality Standards for Interprofessional Healthcare Education: The W(e)Learn Framework and Designing and Validating a Toolkit of Bilingual Assessment Tools

This paper addresses some of the most important unresolved issues of interdisciplinary education (IPE) for healthcare by describing our experiences and processes in developing and validating qualitative and quantitative evaluation tools to assess IPE courses and programs (online and face- to-face). The instruments (available in both English and French) include a program evaluation survey based on the W(e)Learn framework, a survey to access changes in attitudes and behaviour and a team and learner exemplar and companion contract. The systems, processes and instruments created and tested will increase the likelihood that IPE experiences are planned and delivered effectively and increase justification and accountability for healthcare educational experiences and clinical practice.