Our Priorities Increasing Collaboration Among Future Health Professionals

Students, residents, and graduate students historically learn and train as highly skilled, but largely autonomous, professionals. This “siloed” approach is obsolete and is being replaced by environments where health professionals and their learners work together as a high functioning team. This means promoting collaboration among health care providers, such as nurses, social workers, physicians  pharmacists, and others so that learners in these environments are trained to provide the highest quality patient care as members of a collaborative team. Public health leaders play a critical role in promoting community health and preventing disease and are vital collaborators with the health care team.

Accurately Measuring the Quality of Clinical Learning Environments

When it comes to improvements and innovations in Health Professions Education (HPE), one of the most important questions is always, what is working and what isn’t?

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A Hands-On Approach to Enhance Community Care

Most patients think about healthcare in the United States as a single, interconnected system. They don’t necessarily distinguish between primary care providers, specialists, public health experts, emergency providers, and others.

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Bridging the Gap for Incoming Medical Residents

Residency is often seen as the defining stage of medical education, but for new medical school graduates, the transition can be quite challenging.

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How to Educate Health Professionals in the Middle of a Pandemic

With support from the Association of American Medical Colleges, medical schools in New York, and a grant from the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation, Tara Cunningham and her team at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai launched the week-long Subway Summit Webinar Series: COVID-19 Lessons Learned from the Epicenter, where they brought more than 700 registrants from across the world together to participate in eight different sessions focused on helping faculty, administrators, and students adapt to medical school during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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News and Commentary

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Prioritizing Clinician Safety and Well-Being

Dr. Holly Humphrey delves into the importance of clinician safety and well-being, and how Catalyst Awards projects are working to improve just that in clinical learning environments.
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Macy Foundation Webinars

Recordings, resources, and information for Macy Foundation Webinars.
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2025 Catalyst Awards for Transformation in Graduate Medical Education Informational Webinar

Recording, resources and information from the 2025 Catalyst Awards Informational Webinar
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Fostering Humanism in Health Care: Insights from Dr. Kimberly Manning at the Macy Faculty Scholars Annual Meeting

At the 2024 Macy Faculty Scholars Annual Meeting, Dr. Kimberly Manning shared her insights and experiences as our guest speaker.

Publications

Read 2023 Annual Meeting of the Macy Faculty Scholars

In June 2023, the Macy Faculty Scholars family--Scholars, National Advisory Committee members, staff, and special guests--gathered in New York City to engage in meaningful conversations about the state and future of...

Read 2022 Annual Meeting of the Macy Faculty Scholars

In June 2022, the Macy Foundation convened the Macy Faculty Scholars, the program’s National Advisory Committee members, and mentors of the 2021 Scholars to share project and career updates, discuss the year’s...

Read 2021 Annual Meeting of the Macy Faculty Scholars

In June 2021, the Macy Foundation virtually convened the Macy Faculty Scholars, the program’s National Advisory Committee members, and mentors of the 2020 Scholars to share project and career updates, discuss the...