The multidisciplinary health team consists of a group of health professionals working together to reach a common goal.
For example, the team typically consists of physicians, nurses, physiotherapists, nutritionists, speech therapists, and / or occupational therapists who come together to decide what the goals for a particular patient are, for example, to eat alone.
How it works
With the goal of helping the patient to eat alone, each professional should do whatever is within their area of training to achieve this goal in common.
Thus, the doctor can prescribe medicines that fight the pain, the nurse can apply the injections and treat the oral hygiene, the physiotherapist can teach exercises to strengthen the muscles of the arms, hands and chewing.
While the nutritionist may indicate a pasty diet, to facilitate the training, the speech therapist will treat all the part of the mouth and chew and the occupational therapist will give activities that make these same muscles work, without him realizing, as, for example, send someone a kiss.
Who is part of the team
The multidisciplinary team can be composed of almost all medical specialties, as well as other health professionals such as nurses, nutritionists, physiotherapists, pharmacists and health aides.
Some of the medical specialties that may be part of the team are:
- Gastroenterologist;
- Hepatologist;
- Oncologist;
- Pneumologist;
- Cardiologist;
- Urologist;
- Psychiatrist;
- Gynecologist;
- Dermatologist.
The choice of specialties and health professionals vary according to the problems and symptoms of each patient and therefore should always be adapted to each person.
Check out a list of the 14 most common medical specialties and what they treat.
