The thesis consists of a short theoretical overview of the changing role of health and disease and presents medical and social view of the medical treatment. Regarding this topic emerges an important question about naming the people, who use health insurance. We continue with the topics of interprofessional education and collaboration as two important aspects for the quality of work of the healthcare team and for integrated treatment. The healthcare team is the most common form of collaborative work, which can bring together members of various professions. Those teams are called multidisciplinary, which can be transformed into interdisciplinary, with hard work and constant training. Social work is an important part of such healthcare teams, but their work is not always acknowledged by the other members. The profession of social work, which basically belongs to the field of social care, had to find its place among the medical professions in the field of helath care. With the research part of my thesis, I wanted to explore views of various professions on the profession of social work. I conducted twelve interviews, with medical and social work students, who attended the subject of interprofessional cooperation and with those already employed in health care at URI Soča. I was particularly interested in how other professions see the contribution of social work to the healthcare team. During the writing of the theory and the analysis of the interviews, five important topics were opened, which I described in the results. These topics are: the view of social work, interprofessional education, coordination of ethics, team work and patient care. I wish my thesis would serve as a reflection to students and medical professionals, on how important interprofessional education and collaboration is, for a good treatment of the patient.
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