Understanding Teamwork in Health Care

Interprofessional teams are a hallmark of delivery across an increasingly complex health care continuum. While designed for better patient outcomes, these teams frequently serve as barriers. Drs. Mosser and Begun provide a clear and comprehensive text with practical frameworks and insightful vignettes for clinical and non-clinical health care team members. Their guidance benefits professionals at all career stages and serves as an enjoyable and valuable resource for all in health care.

This book takes an example laden approach to an abstract topic. The use of clinical vignettes is very helpful in teaching these important aspects of team-based communication principles in today's healthcare climate. My main issue with this text is the almost complete lack of inclusion of the physician assistant profession in healthcare teams. This is particularly noticeable as you read through the multitude of vignettes and examples which barely mention PAs other than occasionally by name, with no attention paid to their role. This is a required text for the Interpersonal Communication class that I am the course director for at my university. I will reconsider using this in the future because of this. I suggest inclusion of PAs in future editions.

Screw textbooks.