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Relationships between medical education and education in other health professions

A Conference on 18 December 1981 arranged by the Association for the Study of Medical Education dealt with the issue of Relationships between medical education and education in other health professions. The professions represented included nursing, health visiting, social work, pharmacy, physiotherapy, occupational therapy and medicine. The chairman for the morning was Professor Sir John Walton. In an introduction Professor J. M. Bishop, University of Birmingham, spoke of the changing roles of members of the individual professions which had not been paralleled by significant alterations in education and training. The separate professional groups continued to be educated in isolation from one another. The reality of team care of patients, both in hospital and in the community, was by no means always achieved, at least in part due to poor communication between members of the team and ignorance about the training and abilities of potential colleagues. Doctors too readily assumed that they were entitled to a leadership role in the care team, a role for which they receive no training. This assumption was quite rightly being increasingly challenged. The purpose of the meeting was to explore ways in which the education and training of the health professions could be brought together and perhaps linked in some way. Sharing of ideas, objectives and educational experiences should result in better working relationships which would be to the benefit of patients.