Improvement of Inter-Professional Collaborative Work Abilities in Mexican Medical and Nursing Students: A Longitudinal Study Tuirán Gutiérrez, Guillermo J. San Martín, Montserrat Delgado-Bolton, Roberto Bartolomé, Blanca Vivanco, Luis Professionalism Lifelong learning Inter-professional collaborative work Medical students Nursing students Professional roles Background: Inter-professional and interpersonal relationships in collaborative work environments can prove to be critical elements in healthcare practice. When implementers fail to understand the importance of a collaborative perspective, this can lead to communication problems which ultimately harm the users. Objectives: To improve the inter-professional collaborative work skills of Mexican students in their first year of medical and nursing degrees through the use of a training program geared toward development of interpersonal skills and interdisciplinary work. Results: The control group of medical students showed a deterioration in the development of collaborative work skills (p < 0.01), whereas in the experimental group this deterioration was not present. In the experimental group of nursing students, a significant increase in the development of collaborative work skills (p < 0.05) was observed. The differences were clearly due to the professional area of study (p < 0.001). Conclusion: There are differences in collaborative work skill development among different professional areas. These differences can be reduced through the implementation of a program aimed at developing collaborative work and interpersonal skills in the early stages of training. 2020-02-21T12:21:18Z 2020-02-21T12:21:18Z 2019-01-15 info:eu-repo/semantics/article Tuirán-Gutiérrez GJ, San-Martín M, Delgado-Bolton R, Bartolomé B and Vivanco L (2019) Improvement of Inter-Professional Collaborative Work Abilities in Mexican Medical and Nursing Students: A Longitudinal Study. Front. Psychol. 10:5. http://hdl.handle.net/10481/59814 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00005 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Atribución 3.0 España Frontiers Media