What Matters Most

Learning: what matters most.

Dr Jensen is a leader known nationally and internationally for her scholarly contributions related to expert practice, clinical reasoning, professional ethics, and educational theory and application. Although her vision and work often center on physical therapy, she reaches beyond the profession to have an impact on health professions and higher education more broadly. She has served on several...

Measuring What Matters Most

Jeffrey Lucas Deputy Director, Baldrige National Quality Program What happens when a K‐12 school system sets a goal beyond meeting the minimum state and federal standards for student achievement, and instead commits to “Igniting a Passion for Learning”? In the case of Iredell‐Statesville Schools (I‐SS) in North Carolina, a 2008 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award recipient with over 22,000...

Assessing competence for reentry: what matters most?

16 July 2013 T he Association of American Medical Colleges reports a current shortage of physicians in the United States which is projected to be greater than 90,000 by the year 2020.1 The most recent analysis specific to anesthesiology, which utilized 2007 data, projects a shortage of more than 4,400 anesthesiologists by the year 2020.‡ Without doubt the healthcare landscape has changed over t...

An Unhealthy Start in Life- What Matters Most?

Life isn’t fair. The following monograph describes how neurotoxic metals, micronutrient deficiencies, and social environments can combine to give a child an unhealthy start in life. Visualize a preschool child from a low-income family in the United States, growing up in a poorly maintained older apartment with peeling paint and windowsills laden with lead dust. Perhaps this child also attends a...

What matters most in pediatric familial hypercholesterolemia, genotype or phenotype?