Innovations in the education of health professionals.
Dramatic and unprecedented changes in health care have altered the health care landscape and have significant implications for health professions education. This issue of the NCMJ explores these changes and highlights innovative models across the health professions that are designed to prepare graduates to practice in the emerging health care system and to deliver high-quality care in a cost-effective manner. These new educational programs--which include training for future doctors, nurses, dentists, pharmacists, and various allied health professionals--aim to prepare providers to meet the needs of North Carolina communities, and they use new educational models to give graduates the competencies they need to practice in health care teams and to contribute in other ways to improved health outcomes for the people of the state.
Corresponding author: Program on Health Workforce Research and Policy, Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA. tom_bacon@med.unc.edu.
Thomas J
TJ
Bacon
North Carolina Area Health Education Centers program, and Department of Family Medicine, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
Warren P
WP
Newton
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