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Abstract Background Health care requires multidisciplinary team collaboration to achieve safe, high-quality care; however, team instruction lags behind practice needs. Questions remain about how best to design and deliver interprofessional team training, including the effect of time distribution of training, or how best to measure success regarding collaborative practice competency. Methods A two-group, pre-/post-quasi-experimental design was used with interprofessional teams made up of nursing, medical, and respiratory therapy students (n = 24 teams) to determine how two team training methods affected teamwork attitude after cardiac arrest simulation. Results There was a statistically significant increase for the within-group comparison for all groups in teamwork attitude scores (p = .001), but no differences between groups comparing a one-day delivery to multiple-days (p = .76). Conclusions Change in teamwork attitude can occur over a short period, regardless of time distribution of team training instruction. These findings provide evidence that scheduling training in a way that is convenient can be equally effective.