Redesigning Continuing Education in the Health Professions
eBook - PDF

Redesigning Continuing Education in the Health Professions

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  1. 297 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Redesigning Continuing Education in the Health Professions

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About this book

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.

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Information

Publisher
National Academies Press
Year
2010
eBook ISBN
9780309140799
Edition
0
Topic
Education

Table of contents

  1. FrontMatter
  2. Reviewers
  3. Preface
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Contents
  6. Boxes, Figures, and Tables
  7. Summary
  8. 1 Continuing Professional Development: Building and Sustaining a Quality Workforce
  9. 2 Scientific Foundations of Continuing Education
  10. 3 Regulation and Financing
  11. 4 Moving Toward a Continuing Professional Development System
  12. 5 Envisioning a Better System of Continuing Professional Development
  13. 6 Function and Structure of a Continuing Professional Development Institute
  14. 7 Implementation, Research, and Evaluation
  15. Appendix A: Literature Review Tables
  16. Appendix B: Health Professions Table
  17. Appendix C: International Comparison of Continuing Education and Continuing Professional Development
  18. Appendix D: Continuing Education in Professional Fields Outside of Health Care
  19. Appendix E: Workshop Agenda
  20. Appendix F: Committee Member and Staff Biographies