The 2001 Institute of Medicine (IOM) report "Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century" recommended that an interdisciplinary summit be held to develop next steps for reform of health professions education in order to enhance patient care quality and safety. In June 2002, the IOM convened this summit, which included 150…

This report compares the demand for qualified healthcare workers in Maryland and the supply provided by Maryland higher education institutions. It identifies: (1) Maryland?s top 25 demand healthcare occupations, and (2) any gaps between the supply and demand for these 25 healthcare occupations. Additional information on each healthcare occupation…

The Galveston plan implemented by the University of Texas Medical Branch School of Allied Health Sciences and Galveston College provides academic and clinical experience for the health care worker. The plan utilizes the core approach in instruction for its cooperative program. (DS)

The process of writing and using performance goals, will bring a number of side benefits in its wake, among them ultimately, a more realistic view of what is needed to meet existing shortages in the health services. (Editor)

The objectives of this study were to: (1) describe the activities of clerks, (2) identify teaching and learning experiences, and (3) to describe the effects of career selection with respect to responsibility, skill development, and enjoyment of the program. (Editor)

Examines some trends and problems of governance in relation to collegial, bureaucratic, corporate and political models. (Author)

Advancement of human capability is heavily related to expenditures on health education, research and development. (Author)

Innovation may be good in medical education, but the changes in one school may or may not be beneficial to another. (HS)

Both the physician and the patients he serves have a crucial stake in questions of specialty choice. (HS)