Working in teams is not easy, and can initially
seem counterintuitive and unnecessarily time
consuming. However, team skills can be learned,
and similar to sports teams, they improve with
practice. Thus, the ability to work in a health
care team is an essential clinical skill; yet for the
most part the different disciplines have minimal
education contact during training. Apart from
social interaction as friends, students in different
health professional programmes see each other
‘on the wards’, but not within the classroom or in
the general practice setting. Other than personal
health care experience, they learn about other
disciplines from the media—be it TV, YouTube,
film or writing. How accurate is that?