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‘As if’: a tool for experiencing team‐based care

If you are a health care professional, did you take most of your classroom courses with others who were from your profession? And only later, when you entered the arena of patient care, did you realise that you were required to interact with other practitioners with different knowledge, skills and responsibilities than your own? In today’s complex health care environment, our students should no longer experience this ‘culture shock’ when they begin clinical rotations. How can this be avoided? The answer lies in interprofessional education (IPE): developing structured learning exercises where students from two or more professions interact to learn about, from and with each other, to foster effective collaboration and to improve health outcomes.1 Through IPE activities students understand the roles and responsibilities of others, learn to communicate with each other and develop positive attitudes that are critical to successful teambased care.2