Feasibility, Acceptability, and Satisfaction of REDCap as a Tool for Interprofessional Education

Interprofessional education (IPE) is an important component of health science training. Ensuring all students have access to necessary information prior to, during, and following simulation-enhanced IPE (Sim-IPE) activities is imperative to ensure a beneficial learning environment and student engagement. Ensuring access to necessary materials can be difficult due to differences in educational resources between institutions. This manuscript will assess the feasibility, acceptability, and satisfaction of using Research Electronic Data Capture (REDCap) as an educational tool for a Sim-IPE activity. After a pilot Sim-IPE activity, data from student evaluations was reviewed. Updates were made including use of REDCap as a universally accessible web-application. In addition to data collection, REDCap served multiple purposes, including as a pre-activity learning module and assignment submission portal. Students and faculty were provided direct links to specific portions of REDCap project throughout the activity. Data collected during the following two years was reviewed. From the pilot in 2021 (n=76) to the activity in 2022 (n=220), a significant increase in mean score for students’ overall assessment of the Sim-IPE activity was found (9.8% increase from 2021; p