A Call for Educational Reform

2 Educational Reform

Institute of Medicine report on GME--a call for reform.

For more than three decades, administrations from that of Republican Ronald Reagan (1981— 1989) to Democrat Barack Obama have proposed sharp reductions in the robust support by Medi­ care of graduate medical education (GME) pro­ grams. Teaching hospitals, the major recipients of an annual federal GME investment of more than $15 billion in 2012, have withstood most of these incursions because se...

Call for a slower approach to health care reform.

Health care in the United States is in shambles. We justifiably boast of our prowess in high technology, but our measurable standard health care results are among the poorest in the developed world, well below those of Western Europe. Our costs per citizen are almost twice those of Western Europe and remain on a ruinous rising curve. We are not providing adequate primary and preventive care to ...

The contracting resource base: a catalyst for educational administration reform

Explains that the Canadian federal government has recently cut $800 million in transfer payments for education to the provinces, with further cuts planned for the next two years. Consequently, there is growing concern among administrators and professional educators as to the likely impact of these developments in Ontario. Examines the impact of incremental resource reductions on an Ontario boar...

A Call for a Backward Design to Knowledge Translation

Despite several calls to support evidence-informed policy-making, variations in uptake of evidence into policy persist. This editorial brings together and builds on previous Knowledge Translation (KT) frameworks and theories to present a simple, yet, holistic approach for promoting evidence-informed policies. The proposed conceptual framework is characterized by its impact-oriented approach and...