News and Commentary
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...
New Macy Report Profiles Early Experiences of Nation’s Newest Medical Schools
A new report released today highlights the motivating factors, challenges, and planning strategies faced by 15 of the newest U.S. medical schools and offers important lessons learned as they begin to enroll classes...
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.
New Grants for Teaching Professionalism
The Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation and the Institute on Medicine as a Profession (IMAP) are pleased to announce this year’s winners of the 2013 Education and Training to Professionalism Initiative grant.
George Thibault on Online Medical Education
An explosion of massive open online courses (MOOCs) has fueled discussion about whether doctors, nurses and other health professionals could one day get their degrees online. Dr. Thibault discusses what this trend...