Macy Faculty Scholar Kenya Beard on Multicultural Education

Macy Scholar Kenya Beard discusses her project to strengthen nursing faculty in educating minority students.

Improving Quality and Safety for Diverse Populations

Grantee Massachusetts General Hospital shares recent experiences piloting a new interprofessional education curriculum focused on providing safe and effective care for patients with Limited English Proficiency.

Evaluating Interprofessional Education

A thoughtful comment on a recent blog post on interprofessional education, raised a very interesting question that Stephen C. Schoenbaum, MD, MPH believes is at the leading edge of what we need to learn about...

The Physician Assistant: An Illustrated History

The Physician Assistant: An Illustrated History, is a concise history of the people, places, and events that have propelled the concept of the physician assistant from its inception at Duke University in 1965 to its...

New IOM Commentary on Interprofessional Education

A new commentary by George E. Thibault, MD and Stephen C. Schoenbaum, MD, MPH of the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation describes the promise offered by interprofessional education (IPE) to improve teamwork and patient outcomes.

Piloting Competency-Based Training in Pediatrics

The Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation is pleased to support an exciting new training model for medical students pursuing a career in pediatrics.

Practice Redesign, Patients, and Interprofessional Education

Malcolm Cox and Mary Naylor reflect on the inextricable linkage between education reform and practice redesign. The following is excerpted from proceedings (coming soon) of the 2013 Macy Conference, co-chaired by Cox...