Non-Clinician Involvement in Online Interprofessional Health Sciences Education: Educator Experiences and Attitudes

This dataset is from a study to assess educator views on the knowledge, skills, and abilities needed by IPE facilitators and to explore their attitudes toward and experiences with non-clinician facilitators of online IPE activities, particularly health sciences librarians. The following research questions guided this study: 1) What knowledge, skills, and abilities do health sciences educators deem necessary for facilitators of IPE activities? 2) What are health sciences educators’ experiences with and attitudes toward non-clinician facilitators of IPE activities? 3) What are health sciences educators’ experiences with and attitudes toward health sciences librarians in particular as facilitators of IPE activities? 4) How do these factors differ for in-person as compared to online settings? Methods: This qualitative study was carried out utilizing a novel questionnaire that included both multiple-choice and free-text questions. The latter were grounded in critical incident technique (CIT), a research methodology that uses direct observations of human behavior to solve practical problems. CIT research asks participants to recall and describe a time when a phenomenon of interest occurred. It was utilized in this study to identify what general factors, and what characteristics of facilitators, are associated with successful IPE activities. The questionnaire was distributed electronically to the study’s population of health sciences administrators, faculty, and staff in Texas who were involved with IPE. There were 48 responses. This dataset consists of the raw responses to the questionnaire as well as aggregate data from the TX IPE online directory on 10/18/2021.