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Solving the Workforce Crisis: Lessons from Clinical Practice and the Corporate World

The 8th Congress of Health Professions Educators reflected the concerns of the public, associations, and health care institutions across the nation with health professions shortages and the resulting impact on the effectiveness and quality of health care. Recognizing that the health care field needs to find ways to respond to a growing crisis, the congress was dedicated to highlighting strategies, programs, and initiatives that are beginning to resolve the health workforce crisis. The papers that follow analyze and debate such critical issues as the declining interest in health careers, along with the need to take into account professional relationships, diversity, student and staff recruitment and retention, applicant pools, leadership, quality, public perceptions, the media, and the effect on academic health centers as they outline opportunities for improvement, innovation, and change.

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