Bridging the Gap: A Novel Education Tool to Facilitate Interprofessional Education between Medical Radiation Sciences Students in the Clinical Setting

The majority (95%) of patients indicated that collaboration between different healthcare professionals resulted in better patient care. Seventy-five percent of patients indicated that collaboration between different healthcare professionals results in less repeated information. The majority of patients indicated that the different healthcare professionals involved in their care worked well (90%) and communicated well (85%) as a team. Almost all respondents (87%) identified themselves as part of their healthcare team. Patient perspectives regarding collaboration in healthcare were uniformly viewed, with 35% ‘‘mostly’’ agreeing and 65% ‘‘strongly’’ agreeing to the statement ‘‘collaboration between different healthcare professions is important to me’’. Conclusions: IPC was found to be important to the majority of respondents. It was also well rated at the Odette Cancer Centre, as anticipated. Patient experiences were almost uniformly positive, with high praise for the radiation therapists, radiation oncologists and radiation nurses. Surprisingly, a significant number of patients did not think repeating health information to multiple healthcare professionals was negative or redundant. On the contrary, they found it more beneficial and would rather repeat themselves, as it could decrease human error.