Policy Papers - Annual Forum
Toward Interdisciplinary Team Development National Academies of Practice, 3/26/2012
NAP calls upon CMS and HRSA to make use of their current authority to:
1. Institute pilots, demonstrations and funded grant initiatives to take health reform to the next
level, testing new models of health workforce delivery, including interdisciplinary/interprofessional teams.
2. Address new conceptual models for healthcare delivery that will assist solo and small practices
to transform to a team model to treat the whole person.
3. Expand conceptual models for integrated healthcare delivery to include non-physician
practitioners (e.g. dentists, nurses, pharmacists, psychologists, podiatrists, social workers) as
primary providers.
4. Promote and support interprofessional guidelines.
5. Promote and support interprofessional education at pre- and post-doctoral and community
levels.
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