More than 400 students in healthcare fields from the University of South Dakota and South Dakota State University gathered at USD, learning teamwork skills in the evolving concept known as interprofessional health care……

Joy Karges is a professor at USD in the Physical Therapy program. She says educational standards are now requiring focus on interprofessional health care…..

Karges says the key factor in interprofessional health care is creating a way for different professions to collaborate and communicate on a patients’ care…..

For more details on the effort, see the current issue of South Dakotan Health magazine.