Some benefits of interdisciplinary learning within general practice
- Better appreciation of others’ skills, roles and limitations
- Opportunities for open communication
- Team building
- Improvement of processes within the practice
- Gaining of a broader range of perspectives and ideas
- Breaking down of hierarchical structures
- Promotion of the concept of the learning organisation
- Encouragement of change: change management is made easier
- Valuing of everyone’s roles
- Encouragement of an ‘opening up’ to new learning styles
- Promotion of a clearer direction for the practice
- Motivates and develops a willingness to work towards mutually agreed aims
