In this episode, we interview Dr. Alan Dow, the Seymour and Ruth Perlin Professor of Medicine and Health Administration, Assistant Vice President of Health Sciences for Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Care at VCU, and Interim Chair of the Division of Hospital Medicine at VCU Health. We discuss the ethical challenges and complexities associated with working in a large healthcare team to drive patient-directed care, and the importance of using key concepts in interprofessionalism to help address these issues. We also talk about the challenges of implementing interprofessionalism practices at the individual and institutional level, and how to integrate these practices into the hospital workflow.