title: Interdisciplinary education for health professionals: issues and directions.
abstract: With the increasing use of the team approach in health care delivery, many patterns of team practice have evolved. There is cumulating concern about how comprehensive care can be delivered and how to train health professionals for this model. Educators and practitioners and examining and experimenting with approaches to holistic training. This paper summarizes some of the issues in interdisciplinary training of health professionals and makes a number of recommendations.
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence; D006281:Health Occupations / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D010348:Patient Care Team