European Cancer Summit 2022 submission for Workforce NetworkInterprofessional education and training in cancer care – a scoping review

Over the last decade, there has been increased interest to develop education and training initiatives to improve interprofessional collaboration and practice in the cancer care setting. There is a great variation on programmes and the teaching and learning methods used to implement interprofessional educational programmes. Moreover, there is a variation on the core competences guiding the development of the programmes. (1) Interprofessional health-care teams need to understand how to optimize the knowledge and skills of their members, share case management and provide better health-services to patients, families and the community. Educational and trainging interventions have demonstrated favorable results. The objective of this scoping review is to understand the extent and type of evidence in relation to interprofessional education in cancer care. The purpose was to identify how interprofessional education has been defined and methodology underlying the implementation of such an approach. The review is part of EU funded INTERACT-Europe project. We conducted scoping literature review searching in CINAHL, MEDLINE (Ovid), PubMed, PsycInfo and Scopus databases from 2012 till 2022. Studies were included if had a focus on interprofesional education, development of interprofessional collaboration and teamwork through interprofesional, teaching, learning and assessment methods of interprofessional education in oncology setting. Twenty-four studies out of one hundred and fort nine were included in the review. In the reviewed studies and literature reviews the main concepts were weakly defined. Concepts used were interprofessional education and collaboration, interprofessional learning, team training and interdisciplinary education. Out of twenty four papers only in five description/definition was provided. Inter-specialty training was not used as a concept. Teaching and learning methods applied included lectures, case studies, interactive workshops, audiovisual materials, simulation, and shadowing. The results of this review summarise previous research and will guide the future development of inter-specialty training in cancer care. Multiprofessional, online, and simulation-based communication skills training for healthcare professional trainees can lead to significant changes in motivational beliefs, which are essential to promoting self-regulated learning.To provide optimal eduaction and training, these programs should be evaluated and improved regularly, and evaluation outcomes should include pre- and post-course surveys with a blinded selfperceived competency measures. These findings suggest that interprofessional education and training may enrich the learning experience in multiple ways.