Importance of interprofessional education at health and social science faculties in turkey

The article aims that in health and social care education at Turkish Universities requires implementing interprofessional education (IPE) as a synergy of societal and educational policy and a future investment for the collaborative working. Lecturers and managers who are responsible to organize the health and social care education programmes must familiarize themselves with these common competencies where the health and social care students must have the joint learning and training. The main focus point is that we need to discuss by raising awareness in IPE in Turkey and then development of small projects to support the development of IPE. Apart from education, the Government of Turkey needs to put IPE as an investment in educational policy and practice for working in co-operation and a good social life and social solidarity. In this study it’s aimed to strengthen the meaning of interprofessional education and collaborative working. A strong leadership, management and sound decision making, clear communication, teamwork will be needed to start the IPE journey in Turkey which will be challenging to prepare and breakdown the stereotypes that already exist within the current education system. It is important to acknowledge that the competency based approach to interprofessional education (IPE) is growing and the Universities in Turkey cannot afford to stay behind this new way of educating health and social care students in the modernizing education. The real challenge will be to see IPE is securely embedded in higher education programmes and not being disregarded in academic drift. Turkish government also needs implementing IPE as a synergy of societal and educational policy and investment for the collaborative working. For this reason, the study suggests by raising awareness of IPE in Turkey and then develops small projects build upon European alliances of learning from the research of IPE in Europe and replica these learning programmes in Turkey. The curriculum alignment a new ways of teaching for health and social care students could be done on the selected faculties where the IPE can be tested out on a smaller scale.