Global Interprofessional Education (IPE) brings together healthcare students from diverse professions to foster collaborative problem-solving and patient care. Through global interprofessional teams, students learn to navigate varied communication styles and cultural perspectives while promoting cross-professional dialogue. This exposure challenges traditional professional silos, which often form due to curricular barriers and time constraints, while encouraging students to understand and respect cultural differences in healthcare practice (Ganotice et al., 2023; Choudhury et al., 2020).

While traditional global education often relies on costly and time-intensive travel programs, Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) offers an accessible alternative. COIL enables interactive engagement between students and faculty from diverse international backgrounds through virtual collaboration (Leask, 2020). Research shows COIL enhances intercultural team interaction while providing universities with cost-effective global engagement opportunities (Shaw et al., 2025).

This study examines the impact of interprofessional COIL experiences on students, faculty, and clinicians across two nations. Online learning events were developed with faculty from multiple healthcare disciplines at a private university in Campinas, Brazil. Events featured presentations on shared healthcare topics, followed by interprofessional breakout sessions addressing case studies and subsequent debriefing discussions. A Canvas course platform supported each event, hosting participant introductions, learning objectives, speaker resources, and research materials. Students were required to attend events, submit case study responses, and complete evaluation surveys, while faculty and clinicians optionally completed evaluations.

These events provided low-stakes opportunities for participants to discuss ideas, shared values, professional roles, clinical experiences, and healthcare system differences across cultures. The research evaluates outcomes using The Brief Attitudes Survey for Interprofessional Collaborative-Learning (BASIC-L) (Schneider et al., 2021) and qualitative analysis of participant feedback. This study aims to demonstrate how structured online collaboration can promote interprofessional competencies and cross-cultural understanding while overcoming traditional barriers in healthcare education.

Keywords: Interprofessional Education (IPE), Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL), Global Health Education.