Table 3 Themes relating to "Mutual Engagement" (joint activities that promote collaboration and the development of learning relationship)

Highlighted the importance of learning interprofessional skills early on, and relevance for future career

The peer teaching training program was really useful… this was a natural step up from that—as you do these programs you kind of realise the significance of interprofessional collaboration and education. This program was useful… as you progress more in your career these sorts of skills are really useful to have. And if you’re good at it from when you’re a young clinician, that will make you a better clinician as you progress through your career. (Radiography student)

Valued the discussion boards within the modules to gain an understanding of the experience of others, and reflect on their own

I really liked how there was all of the discussion boards. It forced me to really reflect on my own experiences and also look at other people’s experiences, and learn from them as well. (Speech pathology student)

Students would appreciate future networking and teaching opportunities, including face-to-face opportunities

I definitely enjoyed this program so if there are other opportunities that arise I’d definitely love to partake in them and meet new people. In this program and the PTT there was always interesting people and their discipline. (Radiography student)

It makes those events more fun when you meet someone new and they’re from an interesting discipline. Networking in terms of.. you met people within your own profession, that would also be important networking and it would be more important the further up you are in your career. (Radiography student)

It would be so much better if it was actually face-to-face and there was a bit more collaboration. Hopefully after the lockdown we will have the opportunity to do that. (Speech pathology student)

While some students felt comfortable teaching within the PTT as they were familiar with it, others would prefer a variety of teaching experiences

I wish that for the practical component we were given different situations. Just because I took part in the Peer teacher training program already, and I just felt that when I was facilitating it, yes it was from a different angle, but I have already experienced it. So, I was just hoping if there were more opportunities in the future to facilitate activities in other settings. (Dentistry student)

It would have been great if we had more practical experiences because I really enjoyed putting all of the theory into practical knowledge. And because it was the first time that I did facilitate a training session, I would love to do more in the future just to develop all of my skills. (Speech pathology student)

Students felt the interprofessional aspect was relevant to their future work practice

The SIFT program was super relevant because I’m a nursing student so almost everything I do is going to be interprofessional. (Nursing student)

I feel like it was really relevant, not only to speech pathology but also across all other disciplines because it really teaches you how to work interprofessionally which is such an important skill out in the workforce, and we don’t actually have anything in our separate disciplines that actually teaches that to you. So I’m really happy that I actually enrolled in this. (Speech pathology student)