A publication for physicians and nurses.

The Interprofessional is a weekly essay at the intersection of medicine and nursing, written by a physician who trained formally in both. Each issue takes one specific aspect of clinical knowledge, professional formation, or interprofessional epistemology and treats it carefully — declaratively, with named sources and lived experience, in the kind of language clinicians actually use.

The argument the publication is built on is that there is a third epistemological position available to the dual-trained clinician — categorically unavailable from either single standpoint alone. Not a synthesis. A genuinely different way of seeing the patient. The founding essay, The Third Standpoint, lays out that argument in full.

About the author

Peter Schindler, MD, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and Associate Program Director of the Community Health Center Family Medicine Residency Program at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. He practices at Winnebago Comprehensive Health System, OneWorld Community Health Center, and Nebraska Medicine.

He completed a Primary Care Research Fellowship at McGill University. He holds a BSN from the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, an MS and PhD in nursing from Emory University's Laney Graduate School, a Diploma in Tropical Medicine from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, and an MD from the Medical College of Wisconsin-Green Bay. He is board certified by the American Board of Family Medicine.

What the publication is and is not

It is a personal-voice publication. Each essay is written by one person, edited by that same person, and published under that same person's name. There is no editorial board, no institutional affiliation behind the publication itself, and no corporate entity attached. The author writes from his clinical and academic position, not on behalf of any organization.

New essays publish weekly. Subscription is free. The Interprofessional does not run advertising, does not sell reader data, does not host comments, and does not embed third-party analytics or tracking pixels. CME credit accreditation through AMA PRA Category 1 is in development for late 2026.