Tabriz University of Medical Sciences Research and Development in Medical Education 2322-2719 13 1 2024 01 01 Optimizing interprofessional education: Integrating a portfolio-based approach in undergraduate curriculum 32 32 10.34172/rdme.33262 EN Sangeetha Kandasamy https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8458-512X Shivkumar Gopalakrishnan https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4933-1076 Harikrishnan Elangovan https://orcid.org/0009-0006-0155-818X Satish Kumar Rajasekaran https://orcid.org/0009-0004-0236-4729 John Humphrey Victor Gilbert https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9656-3745 Journal Article 10.34172/rdme.33262 2024 10 17 2024 12 18 Background: Interprofessional education (IPE) is the need of the hour for any undergraduate curriculum to build interprofessional communication skills, adapt teamwork, and role clarity of various healthcare professionals in the early stage of a learning period. The outcome will improve patient safety and quality of care through a holistic approach by addressing lacunae in interprofessional collaboration. Objectives: To describe the steps to implement the IPE curriculum and evaluation of learners’ activity through an IPE portfolio. Results: Sensitization of IPE curriculum among various health professional faculties, and students. Develop core team facilitators, and construct lesson plans and assessments. The IPE portfolio will be used as a reliable and effective tool for formative assessment including authentic, real-world examples of learner’s work. Conclusion: This paper communicates undergraduates’ reflection practices in patient care stimulate critical thinking, deep and lifelong learning, and, facilitating from novice to mastery levels are achieved through integrated and aligned with IPE curriculum and portfolios-based assessment tool.