Headrick L. Getting it right: Educating professionals to work together in improving health and health care. Journal of Interprofessional Care. August 2008;22(4):364-374.

This paper is based on a lecture given at the 2nd John Horder lecture at Imperial College, London, on April 11, 2006. Headrick echoes Horder's premise that working together must be grounded in learning together. The paper offers three elements that are key to educating future health professionals to work together to improve health and health care: 1) integrate theory and practice, especially in the service of patients/clients; 2) assess learning; and 3) create interprofessional experiences.

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