Interprofessional education (IPE) is a requirement of many health professions programs, but further work is needed to assess interprofessional competencies of health professional students. The Interprofessional Competencies Tool (ICT) was developed mirroring the Pharmacist Interprofessional Competencies Tool, a previously validated IPE assessment tool for pharmacy students. The objective of this study was to establish content validity of the ICT and to assess inter-rater reliability (IRR) using intraclass correlation coefficients (ICC) at the level of individual raters, with evaluators and students representing a range of health professions. The ICT has five interprofessional criterion (“Teamwork and Collaboration,” “Ownership of Profession,” “Respect and Ethical Practice,” “Effective Communication,” and “Application of Knowledge and Skills”) and four competency levels (“Unacceptable,” “Novice,” “Competent,” and “Proficient”). Ten healthcare professionals representing six unique professions evaluated six video-recorded interprofessional learning activities, which included 21 students studying four different health professions. The ICT showed good reliability for assessing interprofessional competencies in a variety of health professions students. The individual item ICC were good to excellent, with “Respect and Ethical Practice” being fair. Measures of IRR for one single rater of any profession serving as the sole evaluator for any given student of any profession would be considered poor. Further exploration of improving assessment practices between health professions is needed to provide accurate feedback for a variety of health professional students.
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