Accreditation amounts to a public seal of approval - a guarantee of quality. But with the proliferation of agencies that accredit academic programs over the years, this process has become...
Author(s): Sherril Gelmon, Ed O'Neil, James Kimmey, the Task Force on Accreditation of Health Professions Education
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...
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...
Author(s): Leonard Finocchio, Catherine Dower, Theresa McMahon, Christine Gragnola, The Taskforce on Health Care Workforce Regulation
Current physician workforce trends indicate a need to reform federal graduate medical education (GME) policy to better align policy with market signals and the public interest. The transformation of...
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...
Author(s): Carol Tresolini, the Pew-Fetzer Task Force
As the country strives to produce larger numbers of generalist physicians, considerable controversy has arisen over whether or not generalist applicants can be identified, recruited, and influenced...
Author(s): Mark Linzer, Thomas Slavin, Sunita Mutha, John Takayama, Luis Branda, Selma VanEyck, Julia McMurray, Howard Rabinowitz, SGIM Task Force on Career Choice in Primary Care and Internal Medicine
For several decades, researchers, policy analysts and consumer advocates have consistently found that the care provided by midwives differs from the medical model of care in ways that benefit women...
Author(s): Catherine Dower, Janet Miller, Ed O'Neil, The Taskforce on Midwifery
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,...
Author(s): Catherine Dower, Gale Berkowitz, Kevin Grumbach, Carrie Wong
Report that summarizes findings from literature on successful strategies for increasing the numbers of physicians practicing in medically underserved areas.
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Author(s): Kevin Grumbach, Janet M. Coffman, Ruth Liu, Elizabeth Mertz
