Multiprofessional Education: Advantages, Pitfalls and Program Development tips

The excessively growing data in the field of health sciences cause healtcare professionals to be subdivided into different specialties. In the name of providing high quality healtcare collaboration and teamwork gains significant importance. Multiprofessional education has an increasing value by means of its potential positive impact on promoting collaboration and teamwork among healthcare providers. Despite of its all advantages, its rate of implementation in to education programmes remains infrequent. There are plenty of factors, influencing the success of multiprofessional education, that has to be considered. A shared understanding of the concept of professionalism may facilitate multiprofessional education and collaboration. This review addresses to the definition, advantages, difficulties of multiprofessional education concept and approach to develop a multiprofessional education programme