Future Financial Economics of Health Professional Education Proceedings of a Workshop (2017) / Chapter Skim
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. The resulting health workforce shortage affects people's access to quality health care around the globe.
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, a "more coordinated effort could help to ensure an adequate supply and distribution of the health care workforce." Incentives are important levers policy makers and others have to influence recruitment, motivation, and retention of health professionals. The International Council of Nurses and others have noted that "incentives can be positive or negative, financial or nonfinancial, tangible or intangible" (ICN et al., 2008)
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These topics include the role of health professionals and educators in addressing the social determinants of health, interprofessional work and learning, assessment within and among the health professions, and defining professionalism in and with society. Previous activities such as the ones listed in Appendix D frequently set the stage for exploring other important topics, such as accreditation, which was looked at in an April 2016 workshop, and this workshop topic on financing health professional education.
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The health workforce is increasingly changing as more roles look at spanning boundaries that bridge community and health care settings. These new areas include community health workers, health coaches, and others who are working with communities.
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These are the challenges facing health professional education that framed the workshop and that underscore the absolute timeliness of this workshop. Fraher stated that education will need to keep pace with changes in health care, demographics, and technology; training will have to shift from acute to community; interprofessional practice models will need to be the focus; and all of these changes will need to occur with little to no extra money.
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proposed notions discussed by the workshop participants with (2) health professional education financing examples drawn from South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
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Recommendations from the Macy Foundation Conference on Preparing Registered Nurses for Enhanced Roles in Primary Care. New York: Josiah Macy Jr.
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