en آموزشی Educational پژوهشي Research <ul> <li> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:12px;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"><strong>Introduction:</strong> Interprofessional Education (IPE) is concentrating on the expansion of suitable communication and a teamwork setting for all healthcare providers to conduct patient care well. This study was conducted with the aim of examining the readiness of medical and nursing students for IPE in the surgery department.</span></span><br> <span style="font-size:12px;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"><strong>Methods: </strong>This descriptive-cross-sectional study was conducted on 42 nursing and medical students at Birjand University of Medical Sciences (2022) in Iran who were included in the study by the census. The Persian version of RIPLS (The Readiness for Inter-Professional Learning Scale) was used to collect data. Data analysis was performed using descriptive and analytic statistics and the Mann&ndash;Whitney U test (P&le;0.05).</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:12px;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"><strong>Results:</strong> Totally mean score for RIPLS was (85.81&plusmn;5.33). Comparisons of the mean scores in the roles and responsibilities subscale between the discipline (P=0.041) and gender (P=0.034) of students showed significant differences. But the mean scores in the other subscales as well as the total mean score of RIPLS did not show a significant difference between nursing and medical students (P>0.05).</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:12px;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Nursing and medical students were highly ready for IPE. It is suitable that before the start of IPE, educational workshops have been conducted to learn interprofessional principles, and also recommended the use of IPE in the official curriculum.</span></span></p> </li> </ul> Interprofessional Education, Readiness, Surgery Department, Nursing, Medicine 21 27 http://jsurgery.bums.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-201-2&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Zahra Amouzeshi amouzeshiz9039@gmail.com 10031947532846009484 10031947532846009484 No Assistant Professor of Medical Education, Department of Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Birjand University of Medical Sciences, Birjand, Iran Saeideh Daryazadeh daryazadehs@gmail.com 10031947532846009485 10031947532846009485 Yes Ph.D. in Medical Education, Medical Education Research Center, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran Somayeh Keramatinejad skeramati95@gmail.com 10031947532846009486 10031947532846009486 No MSc in public Health Nursing, Birjand University of Medical Sciences, Birjand, Iran