Health Team Approach Research Articles

The Health Team Approach to Medical Education

In this communication, I cannot discuss a fully formed and fully functioning system of educating all of the health professions together; however, I can relate some of the circumstances under which such an approach seemed feasible, discuss the general areas in which interprofessional education can be successfully instituted, and can say much about the problems that are associated with attempting to set up a health sciences center. It will be necessary for me to give a short description of the background of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of British Columbia in order that the situation which exists at the present time will be understood. Ours is a very young medical school, having started in 1950 in a young university in which there were no other health professional schools except the School of Nursing. The medical school was started under very much less than ideal circumstances, with temporary buildings

A collaborative mental health program in the early prevention of adjustment difficulties in the elementary school

The purpose of this article is to describe a coordinated mental health team approach in the area of prevention of emotional and learning difficulties in the early years of a child's school experience. During the 1964–65 academic year, West Orange embarked upon a new program involving the use of its mental health staff. This approach was a unique concept in the utilization of three disciplines (psychology, social work, and education) for the purpose of early prevention of children's difficulties in a school setting.