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5 A Strategy to Accelerate Change
5 A Strategy to Accelerate Change
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included academic medical centers, community hospitals, and affiliated facilities. In the mid-twentieth century, large increases in funding EDUCATIONAL BARRIERS TO CHANGE from federal and private sources stimulated basic and clini Beyond the islands of progress mentioned above is a vast cal research, resulting in advances in knowledge of the sea that remains virtually untouched by the portfolio of biological basis for disease, diagnosis, and treatment.
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and Technology at Johns Hopkins University; the Engineering Biomaterials Engineering Research Center at the University of Washington; the ERC in Bioengineering Educational Technologies at Vanderbilt University; the A PLATFORM FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH, Biotechnology Process Engineering Center at Massachusetts Institute of EDUCATION, AND OUTREACH Technology; the Engineering Research Center for Wireless Integrated Microsystems at the University of Michigan; and the Engineering Research In the preceding chapters, the committee has recom- Center for Biomimetic Microelectronic Systems at the University of Southmended a number of actions by industry, government, ern California (NSF, 2004a)
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Each center, focused based on engineering sciences. The committee believes that on a multidisciplinary area (e.g., tissue engineering, earth- a similar approach could build sustainable interdisciplinary quake engineering, or surgical technology)
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For example, schools of engineering, also provide materials for continuing education for health health science, and business administration at a single uni- professionals, engineers, and managers involved or interversity might be allied with an academic medical center or ested in becoming involved in the operational management other health care facility, or a combination of units from two and improvement of health care delivery systems. or more academic institutions might work in collaboration The committee estimates that 30 to 50 geographically diswith one or more health care facilities, or units from one or persed centers may be needed to involve and affect a signifimore academic institutions and health care facility might join cant number of current and emerging professionals in health with units from one or more federal laboratories.
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Faculty from business schools, engineering schools, medical schools, and nursing schools participated in research in industrial engineering, operations research, quality control, ergonomics, and statistics. At one time, there were more than a half dozen health care multidisciplinary research centers, but by the end of 1985, most of them had been closed down due to a lack of grant money and support from the health care industry.
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The lack of awareness of engineering concepts and skills, both directly in specifically career opportunities in the health care industry for managers focused courses and indirectly as part of other courses and trained in the quantitative disciplines and tools described in units of study and practice. This will require that faculty with this report may be the most significant reason so few MBAs expertise in health care delivery be identified or recruited enter the health care industry.2 To attract more MBAs and and educational and research links be established between other graduates to health care and to ensure a supply of leadclinical professions and schools of engineering and ers in health care improvement will require a significant management.
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Introducing health care issues into the engineering curriculum will require the cooperation of a CALL TO ACTION broad spectrum of engineering educators. Deans of engineering schools and professional societies should take steps to As important as good analytical tools and information/ ensure that the relevance of, and opportunities for, engineer- communications systems are, they will not ultimately transing to improve health care are integrated into engineering form the system unless all members of the health care education at the undergraduate, graduate, and continuing provider community actively participate and support their education levels.
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Available online at: http://www.isye.gatech.edu/ ing Research Centers. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press.
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