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Impact of a Well-being Promotion (WelPro) Training Program on APPE Conference Leaders
12-10-21
The objective of this pilot study is to evaluate the attitudes and self-efficacy of Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experience (APPE) Conference Leaders (CLs) after completing the Well-being Promotion (WelPro) training program developed at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) School of...
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Pharmacist Workforce and Education in California
07-31-20
Pharmacists are healthcare professionals who work with patients, physicians and other healthcare providers to ensure that patients receive the safest, most effective and least costly medications. They communicate knowledge about drugs, dispense drugs and manage patients whose chronic conditions...
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Defining Competencies for Education in Health Care Value: Recommendations from the University of California, San Francisco Center for Healthcare Value Training Initiative
04-11-15
Leaders in medical education have increasingly called for the incorporation of cost awareness and health care value into health professions curricula. Emerging efforts have thus far focused on physicians, but foundational competencies need to be defined related to health care value that span all...
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Training Pharmacy Leaders: How Educators Can Help Develop Agents of Change
11-10-14
The forces at play in today's health care environment are unprecedented. The Affordable Care Act (ACA), with its yet-to-be-defined impact on care deliver, the recent passage of California Senate Bill 493 (SB 493), and the "triple aim" goal to deliver better care to more people at a lower cost, are...
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Improving Access to Health Care in California: Testing New Roles for Providers
12-01-09
This issue brief examines the State of California’s Health Workforce Pilot Projects Program, which promotes demonstrations to test new practice models for improved care delivery by: 1) granting temporary legal waivers for providers to perform additional duties; 2) creating new provider categories;...
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A Pharmacy Leadership Action Study
01-01-09
OBJECTIVES: To report on the creation of a leadership development program targeted exclusively at pharmacists working in management in the professional community.
SETTING: Large staff-model health maintenance organization (HMO) in California between 2004 and 2008.
PRACTICE DESCRIPTION: The Pharmacy...
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Diversity in California's Health Professions: Pharmacy
08-01-08
California has become one of the most racially and ethnically diverse states in the country, and is projected to become even more so in the coming decades. This issue brief is one in a series of briefs presenting a profile of California’s current and projected population, selected health...
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Teaching Cultural Competence in Allied Health Professions in California
02-01-08
Allied health workers are a critical component of health care delivery. Studies suggest that a diverse workforce is more likely to provide culturally sensitive health care and ultimately reduce health disparities in the population. In recent years there has been increased attention on training the...
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Evaluation of a Train-the-Trainer Program for Cultural Competence
12-03-07
OBJECTIVES: To develop, implement, and evaluate the impact of a cultural competence train-the-trainer workshop for pharmacy educators.
METHODS: A 2-day train-the-trainer workshop entitled Incorporating Cultural Competency in Pharmacy Education (1.65 CEUs) was provided to pharmacy faculty from...
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Promising Scope of Practice Models for the Health Professions
12-01-07
Legal scopes of practice for the health professions exist in statutes enacted by the state legislature and in regulations developed and implemented by administrative agencies, such as health professions boards. The purpose of this brief is to examine scope of practice issues within the context of...
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Tracking the Supply of Health Professions Education Programs in California
04-01-07
Information from California’s professional and vocational education programs are a key link in estimating the supply of workers for individual health professions. The principal objective of this project is to map the “education link” in California’s supply chain for selected health professions....
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The Pharmacy Safety Net in California
08-01-05
Driven by the aging population and the efficacy of drug therapy in the management of chronic disease, the increased use of pharmaceutical products has become the fastest growing, most dynamic part of the health care system. This issue brief finds the pharmacy safety net facing a looming crisis. The...
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Bilingual Proficiency among California’s Health Care Professionals
03-01-05
Californians speak a multitude of languages. In 2000, California ranked first in the U.S. in percent of the population speaking English less than “very well”. With 20% of the general population and 25% of school-age children of limited English proficiency, concerns are rising that many Californians...
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Health Care Providers’ Language Assistance Responsibilities: Major Federal and California Requirements
10-01-03
A number of federal and state laws address the need to provide health care in a language that the patient understands. This two-page overview of major California and Federal lists requirements for health care providers to provide language assistance to patients who require these services. The...
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Pharmacy Technicians in California: Snapshot of an Emerging Profession
03-01-03
The pharmacy technician profession is experiencing rapid change and growth, mirroring changes in the pharmacy profession and in pharmaceutical treatment. This issue brief examines the growth and evolution of this profession as it has emerged over the last 10 years in retail, hospital, and other...
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Pharmacy Staffing: A Silent But Critical Concern
07-01-02
Widely perceived shortages of pharmacists have been reported across California by a spectrum of providers. Advances in drug therapies and technology, the shear number of prescriptions now written for American consumers, and an aging demographic likely to increase pharmaceutical usage has severely...
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Public Policies to Promote Community-based and Interdisciplinary Health Professions Education
04-29-00
CONTEXT: Many rural and inner-city communities in the United States have persistent shortages of health professionals. In addition, health services are increasingly delivered in community-based settings by interdisciplinary teams. Yet, health professions students in the US continue to receive most...
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The Hidden Health Care Workforce: Recognizing, Understanding and Improving the Allied and Auxiliary Workforce
07-01-99
Allied and auxiliary health care workers play critical support roles in the health care system. Any significant reform in the way health care is delivered will require changes in their training and utilization. This comprehensive report by The California Twenty-First Century Workforce Project...
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Recreating Health Professional Practice for a New Century
12-01-98
This fourth and final major report of the Pew Health Professions Commission comes at the end of the most dynamic decade ever faced by the nation’s health professionals. As disruptive as this period has been, however, it may only have been the prelude. The health care system in the US will continue...
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Strengthening Consumer Protection: Priorities for Health Care Workforce Regulation
10-31-98
Health care workforce regulation plays a critical role in consumer protection. For most of this century, the state regulation of health care occupations and professions has established a minimum standard for safe practice and removed the egregiously incompetent. To become a more viable element of...
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The Task Force on Accreditation of Health Professions Education: Working Papers
06-01-98
With the rapid pace of change in the educational and health care systems today, the ability of health professions education accreditation to respond to the needs of the professions, educational institutions, students and the ultimate consumers of health services has come into question. These...
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Considering the Future of Health Care Workforce Regulation
12-01-97
In December 1995 the Taskforce on Health Care Workforce Regulation released their findings and recommendations in a report entitled Reforming Health Care Workforce Regulation: Policy Considerations for the 21st Century. The report put forth ten recommendations for reform and offered policy options...
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Reforming Health Care Workforce Regulation: Policy Considerations for the 21st Century
12-01-95
Though it has served us well in the past, health care workforce regulation is out of step with today’s health care needs and expectations. It is criticized for increasing costs, restricting managerial and professional flexibility, limiting access to care, and having an equivocal relationship to...
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Critical Challenges: Revitalizing the Health Professions for the Twenty-First Century
12-01-95
American health care is experiencing fundamental change. What was recently conceived as a set of policy changes for reform is now being lent the form and weight of institutional reality by the enormous power of the trillion-dollar health care market. In five brief years the organizational,...
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Health Professions Education and Relationship-centered Care
12-01-94
The biomedical model has formed the foundation and defined the character of contemporary American medical practice and education. There is a growing perception, however, that the biomedical model cannot fully reflect the broad clinical realities of modern health care and that practitioners must...
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From Affirmative Action to Health: A Critical Appraisal of the Literature Regarding the Impact of Affirmative Action
04-01-94
Affirmative action has been used by institutions and individuals in the United States since the 1960s to increase the participation of women and racial and ethnic minorities in employment, contracting and higher education. This report utilizes a broad perspective to review the data and research...