Postdoctoral Dental Education

Multidisciplinary Team Care

Team Member Roles

Each health profession has its own paradigms and conceptual thinking. Just as professional jargon can be confusing to your patient jargon can also cause miscommunication among healthcare professionals. Less obvious differences include how healthcare professional think or reason.

Psychotherapist talking about a family phyisician. "When I told him we were dealing with an undifferentiated ego mass, he wandered if we should refer the patient to a surgeon or just order a C.T. scan."