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Collaboration between specialties: a US and European experience
Author(s) -
Kulin Howard E,
Skakkebaek Niels E
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
medical education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.776
H-Index - 138
eISSN - 1365-2923
pISSN - 0308-0110
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-2923.1998.00696.x
Subject(s) - specialty , excellence , medical education , patient care , primary care , medicine , family medicine , discipline , medline , nursing , political science , law
Inter‐departmental experiences in endocrinology at the Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, and the National University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark are described. These co‐operative units maximize specialty resources for patient care, teaching and research, and constitute an organizational format now appearing in inter‐disciplinary centres of excellence. Many perceived threats to academic‐based endeavours may be aided by greater collaboration between traditional specialty groupings, particularly the primary care oriented departments of medicine and paediatrics.