First, inter-professional, interdisciplinary, team-based collaboration is essential to the future of our functioning health-care system.
Our classrooms' remarkable progress is a tribute to the model's adaptability and to the team-based approach of collaboration.
Stanford GSB has chosen to incorporate a suite of technologies to support this multifaceted, interactive experience, including the NovoEd online learning environment to enable team-based projects and collaboration.
In recent years however, increasing focus has been placed on the importance of team-based care and collaboration between various healthcare professionals.
This team-based course emphasizes interdisciplinary collaboration and hands-on learning at the intersection of medicine and technology.
By helping different types of health professionals understand each other's roles, team-based learning promotes greater collaboration and more effective health care [ 20].
Fuqua's team-based learning environment fosters intensive collaboration skills and creates a focus on building relationships and creating value for the organization.
To be successful, nurse practitioner integration into primary care teams requires, among other things, a redefinition of professional boundaries, in particular those of medicine and nursing, a coherent model of inter- and intra- professional collaboration, and team-based work processes that make the best use of the subsidiarity principle.
Cooke et.al, 2008, found a team-based approach effective in developing linkages, collaborations and skills [ 2].
Although the explicitness of formal background for team work, such as well-described functions and responsibilities of team members could be seen as limiting circumstance in highly integrative teams [ 18], in the initial stage of the implementation of team-based health care practice, when team collaboration is low, it seems to be an essential background for team functionality.
