Medical schools, departments of public health, and nursing schools are facing new challenges in the 21st century that require curriculum updates and changes, reports a Medical News Today article. To better deal with “severe institutional shortages,” increasing costs, changing demographics, and the fact that “a large proportion of the 7 billion people who inhabit our planet are trapped in health conditions of a century ago,” a new report calls for major reform in the training of rising healthcare professionals.
The authors of the report explain, “The problems are systemic: mismatch of competencies to patient and population needs; poor teamwork; persistent gender stratification of professional status; narrow technical focus without broader contextual understanding; episodic encounters rather than continuous care; predominant hospital orientation at the expense of primary care; quantitative and qualitative imbalances in the professional labour market; and weak leadership to improve health-system performance.”
Among the reforms suggested by the authors is that programs should generate and maintain a “diverse student body with a competency-based curriculum” that utilizes information technology, emphasizes teamwork, and that highlights various career paths “that are based on the spirit and duty of a new professionalism.”
A call for strengthened leadership among educators, investors, and students is also emphasized in the report.
For the full list of proposed instructional and institutional reforms, please see the article, “20th Century Medical Education And Training Will Not Work In The 21st Century.”
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