ABSTRACT

Post-basic training courses for the health professions are of different duration and take place in different locations. Multi-disciplinary activity involves liaison between the organisers of these various courses. Use of distance learning packages may be a way of overcoming the logistic problems of getting various health professionals together, and multi-disciplinary education within the primary health care team needs further encouragement. The commitment to solve the logistical problems is very much affected by professional attitude. The teachers themselves bring a background experience of little or no multi-disciplinary activity and a good deal of prejudice from their stereotypic view of each other's professional role. A liaison committee was set up with the expressed intention of tackling some of the problems that have been outlined, in particular the logistical problem of trying to combine various courses for at least an annual multi-disciplinary activity. Trainees have an early introduction to multi-disciplinary activity on the introductory course.