Redesigning continuing education in the health professions / Committee on Planning a Continuing Health Care Professional Education Institute, Board on Health Care Services, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee on Planning a Continuing Health Care Professional Education Institute.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical care--Study and teaching (Continuing education)--United States--Evaluation.

Medical care.

Medical education--United States--Evaluation.

Medical education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (297 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : National Academies Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Today in the United States, the professional health workforce is not consistently prepared to provide high quality health care and assure patient safety, even as the nation spends more per capita on health care than any other country. The absence of a comprehensive and well-integrated system of continuing education (CE) in the health professions is an important contributing factor to knowledge and performance deficiencies at the individual and system levels. To be most effective, health professionals at every stage of their careers must continue learning about advances in research and treatment in their fields (and related fields) in order to obtain and maintain up-to-date knowledge and skills in caring for their patients. Many health professionals regularly undertake a variety of efforts to stay up to date, but on a larger scale, the nation's approach to CE for health professionals fails to support the professions in their efforts to achieve and maintain proficiency. Redesigning Continuing Education in the Health Professions illustrates a vision for a better system through a comprehensive approach of continuing professional development, and posits a framework upon which to develop a new, more effective system. The book also offers principles to guide the creation of a national continuing education institute."--Publisher's description.

Contents:

""Front Matter""; ""Reviewers""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Contents""; ""Boxes, Figures, and Tables""; ""Summary""; ""1 Continuing Professional Development: Building and Sustaining a Quality Workforce""; ""2 Scientific Foundations of Continuing Education""; ""3 Regulation and Financing""; ""4 Moving Toward a Continuing Professional Development System""; ""5 Envisioning a Better System of Continuing Professional Development""; ""6 Function and Structure of a Continuing Professional Development Institute""; ""7 Implementation, Research, and Evaluation""

""Appendix A: Literature Review Tables""""Appendix B: Health Professions Table""; ""Appendix C: International Comparison of Continuing Education and Continuing Professional Development""; ""Appendix D: Continuing Education in Professional Fields Outside of Health Care""; ""Appendix E: Workshop Agenda""; ""Appendix F: Committee Member and Staff Biographies""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9786612501340

9780309151337

0309151333

9781282501348

1282501348

9780309140799

030914079X

OCLC:

923281444