Pre-professional healthcare courses, including nursing, are increasingly focused on interprofessional
learning and experimentation with clinical education in ‘training wards’. This involves students from at
least two disciplines who, under supervision, are responsible for patients' care. There is no consensus on
how students' clinical learning experiences in this context are evaluated. We report the development and
testing of the Interprofessional Clinical Placement Learning Environment Inventory (ICPLEI) in the
Australian context. A question set was developed to measure student's perceptions of key variables in an
interprofessional clinical learning environment: orientation, supervision, roles, learning and autonomy.
An expert nursing panel rated items for a Content Validity Index of .93. Reliability was tested with 38
students. After a 2-week interprofessional ward placement nursing, medical and allied health students
(n ¼ 38) rated their learning environment highly, with median responses 4 or 5 of five (mean total 83%).
The scale was reliable with a Cronbach alpha of .80 and moderate item-to-total correlations for 22/26
items. The Interprofessional Clinical Placement Learning Environment Inventory is a reliable, feasible,
fast to complete tool, suitable for use with pre-registration healthcare students in this setting. Further
testing of the tool's psychometric properties is recommended.