A multidisciplinary team is composed of
members from more than one discipline so that the team can
offer a greater breadth of services to patients. Team members
work independently and interact formally. Multidisciplinary teams
may be thought of as requiring everyone to “do his or her own
thing” with little or no awareness of other disciplines’ work. A
project manager or team leader may mold these parallel efforts
at the end of the process, however. Appropriate experts from
different professions handle different aspects of a patient’s case
independently. Rather than integrated care, the patient’s
problems are subdivided and treated in parallel, with each
provider responsible only for his or her own area