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One of the commissioners of the report, Susan Scrimshaw, provided opening remarks at the Forum's public workshop taking place in Washington, DC, on April 23–24, 2015.2 Titled Envisioning the Future of Health Professional Education (HPE) , this workshop aimed to • Explore the implications that shifts in health, policy, and the health care industry could have on HPE and workforce learning.
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For example, the commissioners discussed the effect of technology on health professions education and the work of health professionals, but they did not anticipate how rapidly technology would transform these and other sectors. Similarly the commissioners talked about pandemics but could not have imagined the destruction of health care systems and the loss of health professionals that occurred in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone as a result of Ebola.
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WORKSHOP CONTEXT Remarks of Scrimshaw and Olsen provided some of the big picture ideas that were considered by the planning committee charged to structure a workshop agenda based on the statement of task in Box I-1. The Lancet Commission report mentioned in Scrimshaw's opening comments as well as the Institute of Medicine's (IOM's)
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The workshop will likely explore such topics as: • Opportunities for new platforms of communication and learning • Continuous education of the health workforce • lobal health professional education, training, and practice and the role of G culture in perceptions and approaches to health and disease • Opportunities for team-based care and other types of collaborations • Social accountability of the health professions These issues will be examined in a 2-day public workshop that will be planned and organized by an ad hoc committee of the IOM. The committee will develop a workshop agenda, select and invite speakers and discussants, and moderate the discussions.
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Every global event has local consequences, and every local action has global implications, which leads to globalization. Globalization creates challenges to local health systems attempting to provide culturally sensitive care in a cost-conscious world.
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There have been great advances in education and cognitive sciences; it is now known how people learn, and what can be done to design learning environments that engage different audiences and provide meaningful and significant learning. To remain relevant, education has to reflect changes in the professional work environment, said Magaña.
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She then reiterated that education has not kept pace with a changing society; while she realizes that money and political power are important elements to instigate change, it is still possible to propel HPE forward using the tools educators have available to them today. The first tool accessible for educators is the curriculum.
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A flexible curriculum would also consider the evidence around active learning that has been shown to be of greater benefit than traditional, more passive techniques of education (Melo Prado et al., 2011)
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Francisco Eduardo de Campos, former National Secretary of Labor and Education Management in Health of the Ministry of Health, Brazil, talked about the similarities and differences among health care systems around the world and focused on his work in Brazil. Brazil's political commitment to primary health care has forced Campos and his colleagues to think creatively about how to respond to the call for universal health coverage.
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Later in this report, Andrew Pleasant -- who joined the workshop through a collaboration with the Academies' Roundtable on Health Literacy -- provided some remarks on globalization and challenges to HPE that he felt would be best dealt with through a health literacy framework. Clifford Coleman and Jennifer Cabe described how they each put health literacy into their health professional training programs and argued that health literacy should be the organizing framework of HPE.
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2010. Health professionals for a new century: Transforming education to strengthen health systems in an interdependent world.
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