Table 1 Scales and subscales

Readiness for Interprofessional Learning Scale about willingness and ability for learning with, from and about other professions

Teamwork & Collaboration: shared learning will improve skills for T & C, communication, trust and ultimately patient care - TCIP

Positive Professional Identity: shared learning will benefit communication and teamwork skills and patient

- PIP

Negative Professional Identity: shared learning is waste of time, learning clinical problem solving with own profession peers

- NIP

Roles & Responsibilities: boundaries between profession of self and others, and hierarchies that may exist in clinical practice

Professional Identity Development: learning to function in professional context

Empathy: consisting of cognitive component PersTake and affective component with CompCare and WalkShoe.

Taking patient’s perspective into account when counselling - PersTake

Compassionate Care, showing concern for patient - CompCare

Walking in the patient’s shoes: try to place themselves in the position of the patient: – WalkShoe

Motivation: valuing a cause and dedicating time and energy to it.