Abstract
The contributions to the BMJ on multidisciplinary teams, the editorial and subsequent correspondence have raised and ventilated, sometimes with heat and sometimes inaccurately, many different issues and points of view concerning the ways in which different professional persons work (or don't work) together.
Highlights
The contributions to the BMJ on multidisciplinary teams, the editorial and subsequent correspondence1 !1 have raised and ventilated, sometimes with heat and sometimes inaccurately, many different issues and points of view con cerning the ways in which different professional persons work together
All this has evoked in me a sense of déjvÃu, for in the late 1950s there was considerable comment of the same kind in the field of child psychiatry
The controversy was about who should direct child guidance clinics—some local authority clinics had educational psychologists as Directors, whereas the RMPA issued a document defining the functions of the Medical Director of a child psychiatry/child guidance clinic[4], and our present Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Summary
The contributions to the BMJ on multidisciplinary teams, the editorial and subsequent correspondence1 !1 have raised and ventilated, sometimes with heat and sometimes inaccurately, many different issues and points of view con cerning the ways in which different professional persons work (or don't work) together. The development of training of a more definitive kind, sponsored by the appropriate professional representative body, has led to improvement of professional standards and increases in professional status.
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