Envisioning the Future of Health Professional Education

Envisioning the Future of Health Professional Education

Workshop Summary

  • Author: Cuff, Patricia A.
  • Publisher: National Academies Press
  • ISBN: 9780309377799
  • eISBN Pdf: 9780309377805
  • eISBN Epub: 9780309377829
  • Place of publication:  United States
  • Year of digital publication: 2016
  • Month: April
  • Pages: 175
  • Language: English

In April 2015, the Institute of Medicine convened a public workshop to explore recent shifts in the health and health care industry and their implications for health professional education (HPE) and workforce learning. This study serves as a follow-up to the 2009 Lancet Commission report on health professions education for the 21st century and seeks to expand the report's messages beyond medicine, nursing, and public health.

Envisioning the Future of Health Professional Education discusses opportunities for new platforms of communication and learning, continuous education of the health workforce, opportunities for team-based care and other types of collaborations, and social accountability of the health professions. This study explores the implications that shifts in health, policy, and the health care industry could have on HPE and workforce learning, identifies learning platforms that could facilitate effective knowledge transfer with improved quality and efficiency, and discusses opportunities for building a global health workforce that understands the role of culture and health literacy in perceptions and approaches to health and disease.

  • Cover
  • Front Matter
  • Introduction
  • 1 Building the Health Workforce
  • 2 Curriculum Redesign and Restructuring
  • 3 A Changing Health Workforce
  • 4 Building a Global Health Workforce
  • Appendix A: Workshop Agenda
  • Appendix B: Gaming Arcade Submission Descriptions
  • Appendix C: Abstracts of the April 24, 2015, Webcast Session
  • Appendix D: Speaker Biographical Sketches

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