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Envisioning a More Nimble System for Educating Health Professionals: A Workshop

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Health professional education is under intense pressure, shaped by political, financial, social, technological, and regulatory forces. The traditional academic model, often characterized as expensive with rigid structures, is unsustainable in the current landscape of alternative educational pathways, technological innovations, and socio-political demands. Health professional education can respond by adapting to the changing times. This workshop series aims to learn from past experiences of how HPE has adapted to internal and external pressures, and what levers and tools exist to facilitate future adaptability.

Dates for virtual and hybrid workshop sessions will be announced soon.

Description

A planning committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will organize a public workshop series exploring how to construct a more adaptable, sustainable, and forward-looking educational system for health professionals. Presentations and discussions will draw upon national and global examples to understand barriers to a more flexible system, and how to overcome such challenges. The workshop series will emphasize interprofessional, cross-sectoral dialogue to spark ideas on:

  • what levers and tools exist to facilitate greater agility in health professional education;
  • who needs to be engaged for change to occur;
  • how education and practice might strengthen collaborations in response to patient, population and health workforce needs; and
  • envisioning a spectrum of incremental to more radical changes that incorporate professional competency development with critical thinking and patient safety.

The planning committee will select and invite speakers, discussants, and moderators for each session throughout the workshop series. Following the workshop series, a proceedings in brief of the presentations and discussions will be prepared by a designated rapporteur in accordance with institutional guidelines.

Contributors

Committee

Reamer Bushardt

Co-Chair

Ryan Scilla

Co-Chair

Richard A. Berman

Member

Aaron W. Calhoun

Member

Regina F. Doherty

Member

Kim Dunleavy

Member

Christopher Feddock

Member

Jennifer Graebe

Member

Halah Ibrahim

Member

Michaela Jansen

Member

Neil Maniar

Member

Bjorg Palsdottir

Member

Julieanne P. Sees

Member

Corinna Sicoutris

Member

Halaevalu F. Ofahengaue Vakalahi

Member

Patricia Cuff

Staff Officer

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Sponsors

Academic Collaborative for Integrative Health

Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics

Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education

American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine

American Board of Family Medicine

American Council of Academic Physical Therapy

American Dental Education Association

American Medical Association

American Nurses Credentialing Center

American Physical Therapy Association

American Speech-Language Hearing Association

Association of American Medical Colleges

Association of Schools and Colleges of Optometry

Athletic Training Strategic Alliance

Council on Social Work Education

Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP)

Intealth

Kutztown University

Massachusetts General Hospital

National Academies of Practice

National Board for Certified Counselors and Affiliates, Inc.

National Board of Medical Examiners

National League for Nursing

Physician Assistant Education Association

Society for Simulation in Healthcare

Southern California University of Health Sciences

Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center

Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences

University of Utah, College of Nursing

Staff

Patricia Cuff

Lead

Torrie Brown

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