In this brief survey, the author sketches his hopes and the difficulties of introducing an interdisciplinary approach to the academic training of health personnel. The solution would appear to be an organizing framework in which the many medical and health disciplines, their values and end results, could be synthesized into a single interdisciplinary approach. Our quality of life depends on this.
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