Around five years ago I published an editorial which outlined some possible directions to improve the quality of scholarship in the interprofessional field (Reeves, 2010). Based on a series of systematic, scoping, and narrative reviews of interprofessional education (IPE) and interprofessional practice (IPP) that had been published at that time, I argued that there were a number of key empirical and theoretical gaps which needed to be filled in order to advance the interprofessional field. Having recently been involved in updating some of these interprofessional reviews (Reeves, Fletcher et al., 2016; Reeves, Palaganas, & Zierler, 2015; Reeves, Pelone, Harrison, Goldman, & Zwarenstein, 2016), it was apparent that the interprofessional literature was expanding at an impressive rate, and that the quality of this published work was improving. As a result of this experience, I thought it would be timely to revisit the 2010 editorial to provide an update on how the interprofessional literature has developed (or not) in the intervening years.
