Overview/Historical PerspectiveHealth professionals from many disciplines need to work in concert to address the complex health needs of our diverse and changing populations. Although each discipline has its own focus, "all health care disciplines share a common and primary commitment to serving the patient and working toward the ideal of health for all." 1 Therefore, society and health care would be better served if students in the health professions "have opportunities to experience working together . . . in valid models of cooperative health care delivery." 2 Consistent with the National League for Nursing's (NLN) vision, which involves "strengthening ties with the community and expanding interdisciplinary activities," 3 in 1995, a presidential panel on interdisciplinary*/ Editors' Note: Because of the unusual nature of this manuscript, we will forgo the usual journal format, for instance, the bicolumnar format and modified APA style for references.
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