Realizing Potential: Improving Interdisciplinary Professional/Paraprofessional Health Care Teams in Canada's Northern Aboriginal Communities through Education.
- Resource Type
- Journal Articles
Reports - Descriptive
- Authors
- Minore, Bruce; Boone, Margaret
- Source
- Journal of Interprofessional Care. May 2002 16(2):139-147.
- Subject
- Canada
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 1356-1820
To address shortages of health professional human resources and overcome cultural barriers, interdisciplinary health care teams in most northern Canadian aboriginal communities include paraprofessionals recruited locally. This paper identifies factors fundamental to effective team functioning, arguing for an extension of the information on interdisciplinary practice included in health science education programs to address this issue. (SM)