With an increased awareness among policy makers, providers, and educators that the size, composition, geographic distribution, and skill mix of the workforce is of great importance, the need for health professions education reform is gaining national attention.
In a new Health Affairs commentary out today, Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation President George E. Thibault, MD, reflects on the areas of innovation that are needed to drive health professions education reform and address our nation’s health care workforce needs.
In a recent Academic Medicine article, Dr. Thibault outlined the role private foundations can and should play in supporting the design, execution, and evaluation of innovative educational programs to better prepare the future health care workforce.
On November 14 in Washington, D.C., Dr. Thibault will join Health Affairs and Academic Medicine for a health policy briefing to discuss how to create the optimal health care workforce for the 21st century. The program will include a keynote address by Princeton Professor Uwe Reinhardt, and remarks by Representatives Allyson Schwartz (D-PA), and Aaron Schock (R-IL). RSVP to attend the briefing.