Improving health care team work by education.

The place of team work in health care is emphasised. Reasons for caution among members of the medical profession are defined. The importance of medical students being aware of the input of other health care professionals together with association with them in their training years and integration in activities where possible has been proposed previously, but largely neglected. A number of schemes for improving the education of other professional groups in association with the Wellington Clinical School of Medicine are described. Better teamwork in health care depends upon people learning to work together by association during their training years.