Read Building Nurse Leaders to Improve Community Health

A national leadership program is supporting nurses to work with other health professions in the community.

Read New and Developing Medical Schools: Motivating Factors, Major Challenges, Planning Strategies Part 3

Michael E. Whitcomb’s new report highlights the motivating factors, challenges, and planning strategies faced by the six newest US medical schools and offers important lessons learned as they begin to enroll classes...

Read Achieving Competency-Based, Time-Variable Health Professions Education

Catherine R. Lucey, MD, chaired the June 2017 Macy Conference whose proceedings are recorded in this report, Achieving Competency-Based, Time-Variable Health Professions Education.

Read PACER (Professionals Accelerating Clinical and Educational Redesign)

Primary care has undergone dramatic change in recent years. In response, new training models have emerged to better prepare future health professionals for a career in primary care.

Read 2017 Annual Report: Achieving Competency-Based, Time-Variable Health Professions Education

The Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation supports moving to competency-based, time-variable health professions education. Read about our work in the annual report.

Read Integrating Shared Decision-Making and Interprofessional Education

Three years ago, with support from the Macy Foundation, Prof. Glyn Elwyn, a family doctor and researcher, and his colleagues at Dartmouth College set out to teach medicine, nursing and physician assistant students how...

Read 2017 Annual Meeting of the Macy Faculty Scholars

In June 2017, the Macy Foundation convened the Macy Faculty Scholars, the program’s National Advisory Committee and the mentors of the 2016 Scholars in New York to discuss issues they are encountering in their...