This page focuses on the contribution of individual professions to the functioning of a rehabilitation team. I hope that some day someone will be brave enough to submit something to be posted (with their name unless they want anonymity). At present (July 31st 2021) it has just one post directly addressing the question, what does a doctor add to the functioning of a multi-professional team. Further information is given in the a post published introducing the series, accessed here; the post will give a fuller explanation, and advice on how to submit something for publication. Why not give it a go?! Other posts will consider profession-specific matters in the context of multi-professional teamwork.
Contrary to the header above, this post is not written by Derick Wade. It has been written by a brave speech and language therapist, Harriet …
Teamwork is central to rehabilitation. A team is comprised of a group of people, each from a different profession. In a team, professional boundaries are …
From the moment I became interested in rehabilitation (1980), I have been asked “But what do doctors do in rehabilitation?”. The implied, and often stated …
Team members face an uneasy tension between being a member of a multidisciplinary rehabilitation team and being a member of a professional group. On the …