Rural and remote medicine is already constituted as a multidisciplinary speciality that incorporates knowledge and skills from diverse disciplines as part of a focus on interactions between health, community and place.
Although the delivery of long-term follow-up care varies substantially particularly in terms of who provides it, where, and how recognition of the importance of appropriate multidisciplinary care and cross-speciality care is increasing, especially for adolescent and adult survivors of cancer during childhood.
Adopting Bandura's principles to simulation team training programmes, it is therefore essential to involve real multidisciplinary teams with members of different specialities and levels of expertise.
Although breast cancer care is multidisciplinary, embracing many health professions and specialities, there still appeared to be a small proportion of surgeons not actively participating in best protocol.
Statement 4: Bandura's theory of self-efficacy proposes that real multidisciplinary team members acting within their speciality and roles support motivation and preparedness of participants for effective learning.
The assessment of resource use outcomes is particularly relevant in patients with advanced NSCLC, as the management of this patient group requires a multidisciplinary approach, involving a range of medical specialities, including those managing smoking and age-related co-morbidities.
Clinical co-ordinator: has deep technical expertise in a narrow area of clinical speciality, key member of a multidisciplinary team providing regular outpatient clinics to many patients/clients, not across settings but in a care management role within a clinic.
Intensive care is a relatively new medical speciality that has evolved into a multidisciplinary service due to advances in science and technology.
These are: Sole practitioner: has deep technical expertise in a narrow area of clinical speciality, may be informally part of a multidisciplinary team but works primarily independently with a few patients/clients across a number of settings.
Team co-ordinator: has deep technical expertise in a narrow area of clinical speciality is a key member of a multidisciplinary team providing direct clinical care to many inpatients, may be a number of wards and clinics.
This approach is supported by Chatoor et. al (2009) [ 51] who states: "The multidisciplinary team approach is a means of synchronising treatment between various specialities and streamlining the patient pathway [ 51], p. 614.
