Introduction. The system of healthcare has been based on predominant power of doctors for a long time. Nowadays it is changing into a new model with an interdisciplinary team. Aim. To analyze attitudes of nursing and medicine students towards the nurse’s role in the therapeutic team. Material and methods. The study sample consisted of 50 nursing students and 50 medicine students of the University of Medical Sciences. Data were collected with the help of the Jefferson Scale. The data were analyzed with the Mann–Whitney U test and Spearman’s correlation coefficient. Results and conclusions. The study showed that the nursing students expressed more positive attitudes toward interdisciplinary collaboration than medicine students. There is a need to change the education curriculum in order to improve collaboration between future professional nurses and doctors.

Key words: nurse role, relationship, medical education.