Return of the Renaissance Man?
A really big hot button issue, or so I've been told, in the field of health and patient care is the idea of an interdisciplinary team. This is different from a multidisciplinary team.
An interdisciplinary team works together with a common goal and takes into consideration the benefits and aids of the professionals also involved in the patients care. The professionals will often come together in the same session and work together.
A multidisciplinary team has many individual parts that work independently from each other, focusing on their own strengths/goals to help the patient. These professionals will not come together in the same session but will still update each other about their own particular progress.
While chewing on these thoughts, I couldn't help but think about the Renaissance Man and how this interdisciplinary unit/team of professionals looked similar. One unit, one goal, many professions. Although the professionals in the team do specialize in a particular area, which is not very renaissance like, the fact that they work together in a common goal as a unit is. It's an expansion of the Man into a closer knit team. This is different from what has traditionally been going on in the field of health over the past 100 years. It's been about specialization and how beneficial it is for doctors to be work within their own spectrum. There has been little insight into how a different field might benefit the goals of another. Eg. How music therapy might be useful for a dermatologist patient.
One of the great benefits of this new Renaissance man is that the quality of care/knowledge is not diminished; each member of the team is very specialized. The original renaissance man could not possibly contain all the knowledge of this combined team thus he/she could not possible give the quality care this team can.
I wonder if this renaissance man will be found in other disciplines outside of health? With the economical downturn, maybe having one person with the capacities of many will be a new economical trend. Ha! I just thought about the Resume trend. It's all about transferable skills.
An interdisciplinary team works together with a common goal and takes into consideration the benefits and aids of the professionals also involved in the patients care. The professionals will often come together in the same session and work together.
A multidisciplinary team has many individual parts that work independently from each other, focusing on their own strengths/goals to help the patient. These professionals will not come together in the same session but will still update each other about their own particular progress.
While chewing on these thoughts, I couldn't help but think about the Renaissance Man and how this interdisciplinary unit/team of professionals looked similar. One unit, one goal, many professions. Although the professionals in the team do specialize in a particular area, which is not very renaissance like, the fact that they work together in a common goal as a unit is. It's an expansion of the Man into a closer knit team. This is different from what has traditionally been going on in the field of health over the past 100 years. It's been about specialization and how beneficial it is for doctors to be work within their own spectrum. There has been little insight into how a different field might benefit the goals of another. Eg. How music therapy might be useful for a dermatologist patient.
One of the great benefits of this new Renaissance man is that the quality of care/knowledge is not diminished; each member of the team is very specialized. The original renaissance man could not possibly contain all the knowledge of this combined team thus he/she could not possible give the quality care this team can.
I wonder if this renaissance man will be found in other disciplines outside of health? With the economical downturn, maybe having one person with the capacities of many will be a new economical trend. Ha! I just thought about the Resume trend. It's all about transferable skills.
posted by June-Star at 7:50 AM
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