Surgical multidisciplinarity for precision medicine: the challenge for the future

Multidisciplinary care has been shown to improve patient outcomes, and interprofessionalcollaboration has been shown to improve one’s medical knowledge. Multidisciplinary interventionsin the field of surgery are designed to address a specific problem occurring in a particularpatient population and/or within the context of an individual hospital system. The importanceof multidisciplinarity and interdisciplinarity at all levels, including clinical oncology, craniofacialtrauma, and brain abscess caused by dental peri-implantitis, is well established. The challengefor future research is to further develop and validate medical team performance assessmentinstruments; this will help improve medical and surgical team training efforts and aid the designof clinical work systems supporting effective teamwork and safe patient care.