Liberal Education in the Professions.

nConsidering Liberal Learning and the Health Professions

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE There has been much discussion concerning the relationship between an education in liberal arts and an education in a health profession. Some take a traditional view that the classics are the core of a liberal arts education, and therefore are separate from and preparatory for the professions.1 Others take a more contemporary view, such as using the arts or the humanities...

Burtchaell likes liberal education

L y ° 1***' N o~ 6 8 ____________________________________________________________________________ W ed nesday , January 25, 1978 by Mark Perry Staff Reporter Fr. Jam es T. B urtchaell, a t a sm all gatherin in F isher Hall last n igh t, s ta ted th a t he believes studen ts are p ressu red into study­ ing for certain professions and are th u s losing m any of th e benefits of a liberal educatio...

Health Professions Education

February 2007 Volume 33 Number 2 One of the recommendations of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) report To Err Is Human was that professional societies develop a curriculum on patient safety and encourage its adoption into training. Further, it suggested that interdisciplinary team training programs be created. A second report, Crossing the Quality Chasm, furthered the argument for education refo...

[Continuing education in the health professions].

Bargaining with reading habit is no need. Reading is not kind of something sold that you can take or not. It is a thing that will change your life to life better. It is the thing that will give you many things around the world and this universe, in the real world and here after. As what will be given by this continuing education in the health professions, how can you bargain with the thing that...

The goals of a liberal education.