Definition: Communication, in the sense of cross-fertilization of ideas, involving two or more academic disciplines (such as the disciplines that comprise the cross-disciplinary field of bioethics, including the health and biological sciences, the humanities, and the social sciences and law). Also includes problems in communication stemming from differences in patterns of language usage in different academic or medical disciplines.
use only for communication across disciplines; for relations between individuals in different disciplines, use instead INTERPROFESSIONAL RELATIONS; coord IM with specific disciplines (IM)
See AlsoInterprofessional Relations
