Healthcare profession students participate in a range of clinical placements within multidisciplinary health care settings. Often these placements offer students opportunities to participate in activities with staff and/or students from other healthcare disciplines. Although health service staff generally recognise the importance of clinical placements for student learning, they sometimes feel ...

The health sector consistently appears prominently in surveys of perceived corruption, with considerable evidence that this has serious adverse consequences for patients. Yet this issue is far from prominent in the international health policy discourse. We identify five reasons why the health policy community has been reluctant to talk about it. These are the problem of defining corruption, the...

BACKGROUND Global Health is an inherently interdisciplinary field but overseas training in global health, particularly among health science institutions, has been an 'individual' or 'individual discipline' experience. Team-based training is an approach to global health education which is increasing in popularity; research on team-training demonstrates that teams are more productive than individ...

Co-Chair, WHO Study Group on Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice and Chief Scientist for Nursing & Midwifery, Department of Human Resources for Health, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, Co-Chair, WHO Study Group on Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice; Principal and Professor Emeritus, College of Health Disciplines, University of British Columb...

PURPOSE Dekker et al. (2016) propose an updated definition of behavioural medicine. METHOD In this commentary, we discuss how the field and the disciplines involved have changed over time before suggesting small amendments to the proposed definition. RESULTS We suggest that the range of medicine which might be considered 'behavioural' is increasing to encompass virtually all medical practic...