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The advantages of interdisciplinary approaches to health care over multidisciplinary approaches are well documented. A multidisciplinary approach may not even involve a case conference with the chance of patient management being fragmented and less successful. For the patient the possibility of receiving a conflicting (or apparently conflicting diagnosis) and/or contradictory advice and/or confusing recommendations can be avoided with access to interdisciplinary diagnosis and treatment. Interdisciplinary collaborative practice enables coordinated and coherent patient management to be delivered. Interprofessional approaches are often involved in interdisciplinary teams and a wider range of knowledge and experience becomes available. There are similar advantages from being able to read journals which have contributions that have interdisciplinary and/or interprofessional and/or interinstitutional origins. For example, while undergraduate teaching at different institutions may have many similarities there will usually be very significant differences in the strengths of experience and knowledge in particular areas of research at different institutions. An exceptional graduate degree thesis can be used to attract significant funding to further study the related area of research. Funding allows for a specialised laboratory to be established and for graduate degree students to be enrolled and guided to study in and add to that field of knowledge. Further success and experience help