Interprofessional education stroke workshop: case-based learning for occupational therapy and speech-language pathology students.

Abstract

Collaboration between occupational therapists and speech-language pathologists is crucial in stroke rehabilitation to effectively manage the complex challenges patients often experience after stroke. This article describes a two-hour, case-based interprofessional education (IPE) stroke workshop that required 67 graduate occupation therapy (OT) and speech-language pathology (SLP) students to collaboratively solve a case study related to stroke. Students used a survey to self-assess their interprofessional collaborative practice before and after participating in the workshop and completed a reflection journal. Results of Wilcoxon signed-rank tests showed a significant improvement in interprofessional collaborative competence following participation in the IPE stroke workshop. Students' reflection journals supported the survey ratings and discussed learning and applying skills related to interprofessional collaborative practice. Students overwhelmingly expressed interest in engaging interprofessional collaborative practice and sought more interprofessional learning opportunities. The current study offers a practical method for implementing IPE for cohorts of OT and SLT students.