Impact of IPE in Multidisciplinary Primary Care Centres on Collaborative Competency of Healthcare Students (FLIRT-MSP) (FLIRT-MSP)

Impact of Interprofessional Education in Multidisciplinary Primary Care Centres on Collaborative Competency of Healthcare Students - Quasi-experimental Study

The aim of our study is to evaluate the impact of interprofessional education program (IPEP) for healthcare students in clinical placement in MPCC on interprofessional collaboration (IPC), comparing the acquisition of interprofessional collaboration skills in students receiving IPEP during their MPCC placement with those in their MPCC placements without this IPEP.

The IPEP will be delivered by trainers (health professionnals from the MPCC) who receive a train the trainer program.

Study Overview

• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Conditions: Interprofessional Education
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: Train the trainer program for MPCC professionals

Detailed Description

For the intervention group, 12 MPCC will be recruited. 3 professionals from each MPCC will be trained and will be responsible for implementing the IPEP for their students.

For the control group, 12 MPCC will be recruited. Students will carry out their clinical placement as usual.

Study method : A multimodal study with a quasi experimental multisite study before and after the IPEP and a qualitative study to explore students' perceptions of the IPC will be conducted.

• Study Type: Observational
• Enrollment (Estimated): 96

Contacts and Locations

• Study Contact: Name: AURELIE VEISLINGER; Phone Number: +33 (0)2 99 28 97 52; Email: aurelie.veislinger@chu-rennes.fr
• Study Contact Backup: Name: LAURE FIQUET, Dr; Phone Number: +33 (0)2 23 23 49 68; Email: laure.fiquet@univ-rennes.fr

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: Child; Adult; Older Adult
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

• Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

Participants in this study will be :

• General medicine internship students in Level 1 (7th year) who complete 6-month internships with GPs.
• Midwifery students doing internships with independent midwives.
• Occupational therapy students who do internships with occupational therapists in private practice.
• Pharmacy students (6th year), who complete 6-month internships in community pharmacies.
• Other students doing clinical placements in MPCCs. A minimum of 48 students are expected to complete internships in MSPs as part of the intervention group.

An equivalent number of at least 48 MSP students in the control group is planned.

Students will be informed of the FLIRT study (intervention and control arms) when they receive the questionnaire, and will agree to take part.

Description

Inclusion Criteria :

MPCC signatories to the interprofessional conventional agreement with the French national health insurance system.

Volunteer to take part in the FLIRT MSP Study. MPCC with GPs who are habilitated to supervise internship family medicine students.

MPCC volunteer to receive healthcare students from different professions including at least one GP intern.

Volunteer to form an interprofessional training team.

Exclusion Criteria:

MPCC who are unable to form an internship training team or to commit to IPE as stipulated in the protocol will not be included in the MSP intervention group.

For the qualitative study, students who do not volunteer or are unavailable for interview will not be included in the FLIRT qualitative component.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Number of groups / cohorts

2

Cohorts and Interventions

Group / Cohort	Intervention / Treatment
MPCC participating in intervention group; MPCC signatories to the interprofessional conventional agreement with the French national health insurance system; volunteer to take part in the FLIRT MSP Study; volunteer to form an interprofessional training team; MPCC with GPs who are habilitated to supervise internship family medicine students; MPCC volunteer to receive healthcare students from different professions including at least one GP intern.	Other: Train the trainer program for MPCC professionals; The intervention will consist on a train the trainer program. 3 professionals from each MPCC will be trained by an educational team. They will then have to implement an IPEP (knowledge of the MPCC, participation in interprofessional MPCC activities, etc.) for students on placement in their MPCC.
MPCC participating in control group; MPCC signatories to the interprofessional conventional agreement with the French national health insurance system; volunteer to take part in the FLIRT MSP Study; MPCC with GPs who receive internship family medicine students; MPCC volunteer to receive healthcare students from different professions including at least one GP intern.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Time Frame
Comparison of changes in student scores on the ICCAS (Interprofessional Collaborative Competency Attainment Survey) before and after the MPCC placement in the intervention and control groups.	18 months

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Comparison of changes in student scores on the ICCAS for each of the 6 IPC dimensions in the intervention and control groups		18 months
Comparison of changes in student scores on the ICCAS for each healthcare profession in the intervention and the control groups		18 months
Analysis of the experience and feelings of students who have benefited from the IPEP on placement concerning their training and their vision of interprofessional collaboration (qualitative study).	The aim will be to understand how the placement changed their view of IPC, how they integrated into the MPCC, how they perceived interprofessional work and how they perceived their professional role within an MPCC.	24 months
Analysis of the feelings of students who did not benefit from IPEP on placement in relation to their education and their view of interprofessional collaboration (qualitative study).	The aim will be to understand how the placement changed their view of IPC, how they integrated into the MPCC, how they perceived interprofessional work and how they perceived their professional role within an MPCC.	24 months

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Rennes University Hospital

Publications and helpful links

General Publications

• Miselis HH, Zawacki S, White S, Yinusa-Nyahkoon L, Mostow C, Furlong J, Mott KK, Kumar A, Winter MR, Berklein F, Jack B. Interprofessional education in the clinical learning environment: a mixed-methods evaluation of a longitudinal experience in the primary care setting. J Interprof Care. 2022 Nov-Dec;36(6):845-855. doi: 10.1080/13561820.2022.2025768. Epub 2022 Feb 2.
• Reeves S, Zwarenstein M, Goldman J, Barr H, Freeth D, Koppel I, Hammick M. The effectiveness of interprofessional education: key findings from a new systematic review. J Interprof Care. 2010 May;24(3):230-41. doi: 10.3109/13561820903163405.
• Poitras ME, Couturier Y, Doucet E, T Vaillancourt V, Poirier MD, Gauthier G, Hudon C, Delli-Colli N, Gagnon D, Careau E, Duhoux A, Gaboury I, Charif AB, Ashcroft R, Lukewich J, Ramond-Roquin A, Masse S. Co-design, implementation, and evaluation of an expanded train-the-trainer strategy to support the sustainability of evidence-based practice guides for registered nurses and social workers in primary care clinics: a developmental evaluation protocol. BMC Prim Care. 2022 Apr 18;23(1):84. doi: 10.1186/s12875-022-01684-0.

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Estimated): January 1, 2025
• Primary Completion (Estimated): April 1, 2025
• Study Completion (Estimated): December 1, 2026

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: January 17, 2025
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: January 17, 2025
• First Posted (Actual): March 25, 2025

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): March 25, 2025
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: January 17, 2025
• Last Verified: January 1, 2025

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: Primary Health Care; Students; Interprofessional collaboration; Self evaluation program
• Other Study ID Numbers: 35RC22_8980_FLIRT-MSP

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO
• IPD Plan Description: There is no plan to make IPD available to other researchers

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No
• product manufactured in and exported from the U.S.: No