Although University of Washington serves as vanguard for interprofessional collaboration, there are two features of professional practice not addressed in the program. Implementation may be problem, since teacher training is limited by state and occurs in contexts distant from urban areas needing interprofessional collaboration. Multicultural…

Universities must devise and sustain preparation programs that will instill the skills, knowledge, and attitudes needed to guide intercollaborative work. Challenges arise in four overlapping arenas: the external environment (including key accrediting and credentialing bodies), the intellectual core of the professional disciplines, faculty…

Reviews two major themes dominating this yearbook: the value of school-linked, integrated services and the prospects for producing a new generation of university-trained professionals to work effectively in these better-integrated systems. The real challenge is transforming educational politics and reallocating existing (overlapping) funds.…