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A project is underway to review the way health professionals are educated in Australia in an effort to develop a common framework of inter-professional education. The nation wide project, led by the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) and the University of Sydney, is a response to numerous studies highlighting the need for health professionals to work together to deliver safe and sustainable health services.
Professor Alison Lee, project co-leader from UTS faculty of education, said a recent report by the National Patient Safety Education Framework concluded that, "a segregated approach to professional education is no longer appropriate in a ...