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Redesigning continuing education in the health professions
Title
Redesigning continuing education in the health professions [electronic resource] / Committee on Planning a Continuing Health Care Professional Education Institute, Board on Health Care Services, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies.
ISBN
9780309140799 (electronic bk.)
030914079X (electronic bk.)
0309140781 (print)
9780309140782 (print)
Published
Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, c2010.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xix, 276 p.) : ill.
Notes
Description based on print version record.
Summary
"Today in the United States, the professional health workforce is not consistently prepared to provide high quality health care and assure patient safety, even as the nation spends more per capita on health care than any other country. The absence of a comprehensive and well-integrated system of continuing education (CE) in the health professions is an important contributing factor to knowledge and performance deficiencies at the individual and system levels. To be most effective, health professionals at every stage of their careers must continue learning about advances in research and treatment in their fields (and related fields) in order to obtain and maintain up-to-date knowledge and skills in caring for their patients. Many health professionals regularly undertake a variety of efforts to stay up to date, but on a larger scale, the nation's approach to CE for health professionals fails to support the professions in their efforts to achieve and maintain proficiency. Redesigning Continuing Education in the Health Professions illustrates a vision for a better system through a comprehensive approach of continuing professional development, and posits a framework upon which to develop a new, more effective system. The book also offers principles to guide the creation of a national continuing education institute."--Executive summary.
Variant and related titles
National Academies Press.
Other formats
Print version: Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee on Planning a Continuing Health Care Professional Education Institute. Redesigning continuing education in the health professions. Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, c2010
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 23, 2013
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Continuing professional development: building and sustaining a quality workforce
Scientific foundations of continuing education
Regulation and financing
Moving toward a continuing professional development system
Envisioning a better system of continuing professional development
Function and structure of a continuing professional development institute
Implementation, research, and evaluation.
Subjects
Subjects (Medical)
Education, Medical, Continuing - United States.
Education, Medical, Continuing - trends - United States.
Health Occupations - education - United States.
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