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This Macy Conference that was held April 3 to 6, 2014, in Arlington, Virginia represented the Macy Foundation’s first formal initiative to bring together the worlds of health professions education, healthcare delivery, and patient and community advocacy. The conference was chaired by Terry Fulmer, PhD, RN, FAAN and Martha Gaines, JD, LLM.

This report is from the first of two conferences sponsored by the Josia Macy Jr. Foundation focused on ensuring an effective physician workforce for America.  This conference - which took place in October, 2010 in Atlanta, Georgia -  was chaired by Michael M.E. Johns, MD.  This report includes the original papers which were commissioned for the conference:

This report is from the second of two conferences sponsored by the Josia Macy Jr. Foundation focused on ensuring an effective physician workforce for America.  This conference - which took place in May, 2011 in Atlanta, Georgia -  was chaired by Debra Weinstein, MD.  This report examines the structure, content, and efficiency of training in graduate medical education.

Conclusions from the conference:

1. GME must meet the needs of - and be accountable to - the public.

This report summarizes the National Academies of Practice annual meeting, convened in cooperation with the Interdisciplinary Health Care Team Conference, on April 13, 2002 in Washington, D.C.

Please note: The full text of this article is only available to those with subscription access to the Informa Healthcare database. Contact your institutional library or the publisher for details.

This report describes the National Academies of Practice membership Forum Day, held on April 28, 2000 at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.

Please note: The full text of this article is only available to those with subscription access to the Informa Healthcare database. Contact your institutional library or the publisher for details.

Keeping Patients Safe: Transforming the Work Environment of Nurses identifies solutions to problems in hospital, nursing home, and other health care organization work environments that threaten patient safety through their effect on nursing care.

A companion to the Institute of Medicine's earlier patient safety report, To Err is Human, the report puts forth a blueprint of actions that all health care organizations which rely on nurses should take.

On June 17-18, 2002 over 150 leaders and experts from health professions education, regulation, policy, advocacy, quality, and industry attended the Health Professions Education Summit to discuss and help the committee develop strategies for restructuring clinical education to be consistent with the principles of the 21st-century health system.

This report from the committee on the Quality of Health Care in America makes an urgent call for fundamental change to close the quality gap, recommends a redesign of the American health care system, and provides overarching principles for specific direction for policymakers, health care leaders, clinicians, regulators, purchasers, and others.

The Josiah Macy Foundation’s 2007 conference on continuing education (CE) in the health professions identified the need, and set the stage for, improvement in this last and longest phase of health professionals’ education. Establishing a platform for change in an era of health care reform, the report stressed incorporatingfindings from the extensive literature of health professions’ CE.

A workforce of knowledgeable health professionals is critical to the discovery and application of health care practices to prevent disease and promote wellbeing. Yet today’s professional health workforce is not consistently prepared to provide high quality health care and assure patient safety. One contributing factor to this problem is the absence of a comprehensive and well-integrated system of continuing education in the health professions.