A WHO study Group on Multiprofessional Education of Health Personnel: the Team Approach met in Geneva in October 1987. It is a policy of the World Health Organisation to foster a type of educational programme for health personnel that will enable them to respond to the needs of the population they serve as part of efforts to achieve the goal of health for all through primary health care.
Multiprofessional education orientated to the priority health needs of populations is one such type of programme. During certain periods of their education students of different health professions learn together the skills necessary for solving the priority health problems of individuals and communities that are known to be particularly amenable to team-work. The emphasis is on learning how to interact with one another. Multiprofessional education does not replace but compliments the part of a curriculum concerned essentially with one particular profession. It is based on ascertained priority health problems of communities; learning takes place in direct contact with the people and in different kinds of health services.