Medical education reform: a catalyst for strengthening the health system

International health electives: strengthening graduate medical education.

An international health elective (IHE) can be an important component of the medical education and professional development of a physician. It provides essential global health skills that are crucial in a globalized society. Graduate medical education has an opportunity to deliver such skills to our health care workforce while addressing the pending workforce shortage and the uneven distribution...

Building a Case for Agent-Assisted Learning as a Catalyst for Curriculum Reform in Medical Education

Animated pedagogical agents offer promise as a means of making computer-aided learning more engaging and effective. Realizing its full potential fully will involve integrating agents into curricula on a massive scale, so that they are as pervasive as textbooks currently are. This paper describes progress toward this end: the development of an agent-assisted learning environment designed for wid...

Interprofessional education in the integrated medical education and health care system: A content analysis

Introduction: The current literature supports the inclusion ofinter-professional education in healthcare education. Changes inthe structure and nature of the integrated medical education andhealthcare system provide some opportunities for interprofessionaleducation among various professions. This study is an attemptto determine the perceptions of students and faculty membersabout interprofessio...

Health System Reform in the United States

In 2010, the United States adopted its first-ever comprehensive set of health system reforms in the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Implementation of the law, though politically contentious and controversial, has now reached a stage where reversal of most elements of the law is no longer feasible. The controversial portions of the law that expand affordable health insurance coverage to most U.S. cit...

Graduate medical education: a proposal for reform.