However, to achieve comprehensive and comprehensive care, the joint efforts of healthcare professionals who form an integral part of a multiprofessional team are essential. Multi-professional teams A multi-professional team is the composition of a number of healthcare professionals with different skills, in order to comprehensively treat a patient to optimal functioning. Multiprofessional teams represent “a fundamental principle of primary healthcare delivery and a holistic approach to health” (Alperstein, 2009: 16) as they combine the knowledge of multiple healthcare professionals in order to provide comprehensive care. To understand the dynamics of a multiprofessional team, I will create a scenario and explain, using Barr's skills, the functioning of a multiprofessional team. My role in a multiprofessional team As a student, studying to become a doctor, I am required to understand the functioning of a multi-professional team and how I interact and fit into that team. To describe my role in a multiprofessional team and the role of two other healthcare professionals, I will use a scenario involving a patient who has broken his leg. I will use Barr's skills to describe the working relationship between a doctor, a nurse and a physiotherapist in order to achieve