Introduction Advocates of interdisciplinary collaboration suggest that scholarship be organized around topics rather than disciplines (Geiger and Sa, 2008; for a review, see Jacobs and Frickel, 2009). This approach, it is suggested, will enable researchers to peer over the restrictive walls of their disciplinary silos and learn about indispensable ideas being developed by scholars in neighborin...

BACKGROUND Patient participation in health care is associated with improved outcomes for patients and hospitals. New technologies are creating vast potential for patients to participate in care at the bedside. Several studies have explored patient use, satisfaction and perceptions of health information technology (HIT) interventions in hospital. Understanding what works for whom, under what con...

Interdisciplinarity is necessitated by complexity, specifically by the structure and behavior of complex systems. The nature of complex systems provides a rationale for interdisciplinary study. An examination of complex systems yields new insights into the practice of interdisciplinary study and confirms widely accepted principles for the conduct of interdisciplinary inquiry. Complex systems al...

Objective. To evaluate pharmacy and nursing student self-perceptions of interdisciplinary communication skills, faculty member perceptions of interdisciplinary communication skills, and changes in those skills after increasing the interdisciplinary education content. Design. Two cohorts of pharmacy and nursing (bachelors of science in nursing, BSN) students in respective, semester-long research...

OBJECTIVES This paper addresses the issue of interdisciplinary collaboration between medical and non-medical professions in health and social care. The introduction defines basic terms such as interdisciplinary cooperation, interdisciplinary team, and health and social care. Additionally, it highlights the significance and contribution of interdisciplinary collaboration in the care of the patie...

Middle level schools have embraced the organizational concept of interdisciplinary teaming and implemented practices of collaboration and teamwork to address academic, social, and emotional needs of students (Mertens & Flowers, 2004). However, concerns about mediocre academic performance of middle level students have interdisciplinary teaming under attack (Yecke, 2006). The following research q...

Interdisciplinary learning is a form of knowledge production that is increasingly being embraced as an educational approach in higher education. A role of information and communication technologies (ICT) is to enhance interdisciplinary learning. Issues surrounding the mix of interdisciplinary pedagogic methodologies and emerging digital technologies are worthy of investigation. In this paper, t...

Interdisciplinary research is both challenging and increasingly imperative to addressing many intellectual, social and practical problems. This poster presents a proposed empirical study of interdisciplinary diversity in the iSchool community. Developing a better understanding of the factors that allow interdisciplinary academic endeavors to survive and thrive is useful to both the iSchools, fo...

The benefit of experience, tempered with the wisdom of hindsight and 5 years of text-based, asynchronous, computer-mediated, interdisciplinary team communications, provides the energy, insights and data shared in this article. Through the theoretical lens of group dynamics and the epistemology of interdisciplinary teaming, we analyze the interactions of a virtual interdisciplinary team to provi...