INTERPROFESSIONAL EDUCATION IN MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCE EDUCATION: REVIEWING THE PROGRESS IN ASEAN

Abstract

The Interprofessional Education (IPE) has potential efficacy to foster the collaboration between health workers from different professions and improving health outcomes. The World Health Organization (WHO) encourages all nations to integrate IPE in their existing curriculum to yield its effects. Most evidence of IPE came from developed countries and insufficient to examine barriers and challenge in developing countries. We reviewed 20 papers about the evaluation of IPE program in medical or health science institution in ASEAN‘s countries. The articles were searched from Google Scholar, Garuda, Science Direct, Pubmed and Proquest with time publication limit from year 2010-2019 in either English or Indonesia Language. The IPE in ASEAN‘s countries was running on several stages. Some run in the planning stage while others in the evaluation stage. The articles showed the challenges during the program including different perception, unequal participation, lack of face-toface interaction, and overlapping roles. In general, the climate in ASEAN‘s medical and health science education is used to be uniprofessional rather than interprofessional. The IPE recommendation should be upgraded into the strong one in the next five years Regional Strategy to foster the development of IPE in the South-East Asian region.