The university clinics of remedial education and social work at UQAC hosted a project aimed at developing interprofessional skills through the implementation of collaborative mechanisms. The article aims to describe how the 25 participating students understand interprofessional collaborative work by presenting their expectations before the project and their impressions after the project. Qualitative analysis of student discourse from semi-structured interviews revealed a change in the initial vision of interprofessional work in relation to collaborative arrangements, the real context of practice and faculty supervision.