Background: Interprofessional education (IPE) collaborative practice contributes to the quality of care results, improving universal access and the quality of health prevention and treatment, as poor communication between health professionals can impair care in health services. This study evaluates qualitatively the experiences of interprofessional education reported by the study participants and the initiatives of interprofessional education in the pedagogical projects of undergraduate courses in Nursing, Physiotherapy and Medicine.
Methods: This is a qualitative exploratory cross-sectional study on the perception and experience of interprofessional education by students and teachers at a private university in São Paulo regarding the health area courses. A sociodemographic questionnaire to delineate the participants’ profiles regarding age, gender, year of graduation, and area of work and two open questions.
Results: The main results were that course that presented more interprofessional academic experiences was Medicine, but still superficially and this can be explained by the fact that there is still little synergy between educational institutions and health services.
Conclusion: There are different understandings regarding the definition of interprofessionality with other terms such as interdisciplinarity and multiprofessionality, both in the speech of students and professors, and in the writing of the pedagogical project of the courses.