One of the goals for the Dirisana+ project is to promote collaboration through inter-professional education and collaborative practice (IPECP), as well as to determine the perspectives and attitudes of final year healthcare students towards inter-professional teamwork.

Rikus Niuwenhuis form Maastricht University visited South Africa to share the experiences of staff and students on IPECP at the University of Pretoria, University of the Witwatersrand, and Sefako Makgatho University. Watch what they had to say:

Research findings on perceptions and integration of Inter-Professional Education have been presented at various conferences, including the Southern African Assosciation of Helath Educationalists and AfriPEN.

Researchers from the University of Pretoria, Sefako Makgatho Univeristy, and University of the Witwatersrand at the 2023 AfriPEN conference in Balntyre, Malawi

How do our institutions feel about IPECP?

University of Pretoria

University of the Witwatersrand

Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University