Background Professional identity is critical to the safe and effective clinical practice of all
health professions. University programs play an important role in the formation of …

Integrated care has been identified as being fundamental to health and social care reforms.
How this interprofessional working impacts on professional identity is unclear. There is a …

The ability to work with professionals from other disciplines to deliver collaborative, patient-
centred care is considered a critical element of professional practice requiring a specific set …

This volume presents a systematic review of interprofessional education in health and social
care. This is accompanied by a wider-ranging critique of interprofessional education …

Introduction The core tenet of occupational therapy is that engaging in meaningful
occupations promotes health and wellbeing. Despite this, surprisingly little research has …

The implementation of interprofessional practice (IPP) within healthcare appears to be
fraught with difficulties, despite the attention it has received in the literature. Although there …

Background The move towards enhancing teamwork and interprofessional collaboration in
health care raises issues regarding the management of professional boundaries and the …

Background Professional identity formation (PIF) has been recognized as an integral part of
professional development in medical education. PIF is dynamic: it occurs longitudinally and …

Interprofessional teamwork has become an integral feature of healthcare delivery in a wide
range of conditions and services in many countries. Many assumptions are made in …

Objectives: Interprofessional collaboration is widely advocated in health and social care
policies. However, existing research provides a relatively poor understanding of how …