The Interprofessional Oral Health Faculty Toolkit
The Interprofessional Oral Health Faculty Tool Kits are based on the IPEC Competencies, the NONPF Core Competencies and the HRSA interprofessional oral health core competencies delineated in the Integration of Oral Health and Primary Care Practice report (2014).
Will We Have Enough Physicians? One of Life’s “Unanswerable” Questions
According to the American Association of Medical Colleges (AAMC), overall enrollment in US medical schools rose in the decade ending in 2012 by nearly 28% (from 80,180 to 102,498), with 4 new allopathicand 3 new osteopathic medical schools opening in 2013 alone. The number of residency positions also rose by 17.5% in the last decade, despite the cap on Medicare funding in 1996. In addition, there appear to be ample residency positions available to accommodate the expansion, despite claims to the contrary.
Future of the Nursing Workforce: National- and State-level Projections, 2012-2025
The Future of the Nursing Workforce: National- and State-Level Projections, 2012-2025 presents projections on the supply and demand of registered nurses (RNs) and licensed practical/vocational nurses (LPNs) for the U.S. in 2025.
Reconfiguring health workforce policy so that education, training, and actual delivery of care are closely connected
There is growing consensus that the health care workforce in the United States needs to be reconfigured to meet the needs of a health care system that is being rapidly and permanently redesigned. Accountable care organizations and patient-centered medical homes, for instance, will greatly alter the mix of caregivers needed and create new roles for existing health care workers. The focus of health system innovation, however, has largely been on reorganizing care delivery processes, reengineering workflows, and adopting electronic technology to improve outcomes.
CMS — Engaging Multiple Payers in Payment Reform
The Affordable Care Act created the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (Innovation Center) to test innovative payment and service delivery models to reduce program expenditures under Medicare, Medicaid, and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) and to enhance the quality of care that Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) beneficiaries receive. CMS is testing more than 20 models under this authority that create new incentives for clinicians and organizations that deliver medical care through CMS programs to deliver better care at lower cost.
Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results
The U.S. health care system is in crisis. At stake are the quality of care for millions of Americans and the financial well-being of individuals and employers squeezed by skyrocketing premiums - not to mention the stability of state and federal government budgets. In Redefining Health Care, internationally renowned strategy expert Michael E. Porter and innovation expert Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg reveal the underlying - and largely overlooked - causes of the problem and provide a powerful prescription for change.
Primary Care: Proposed Solutions To The Physician Shortage Without Training More Physicians
The adult primary care “physician shortage” is more accurately portrayed as a gap between the adult population’s demand for primary care services and the capacity of primary care, as currently delivered, to meet that demand. Given current trends, producing more adult primary care clinicians will not close the demand-capacity gap.
High-Functioning Integrated Health Systems: Governing a “Learning Organization”
This white paper argues in favor of a transformation of structure and function of governance for community health systems destined for higher levels of clinical and business model integration. A principal goal of these recommended transformations is enhancing the performance of integrated health systems as “learning organizations” that are able to acquire knowledge and innovate fast enough to survive in a rapidly changing environment.
Building high reliability teams: Progress and some reflections on teamwork training
The science of team training in healthcare has progressed dramatically in recent years. Methodologies have been refined and adapted for the unique and varied needs within healthcare, where once team training approaches were borrowed from other industries with little modification. Evidence continues to emerge and bolster the case that team training is an effective strategy for improving patient safety. Research is also elucidating the conditions under which teamwork training is most likely to have an impact, and what determines whether improvements achieved will be maintained over time.
Beyond curriculum reform: Confronting medicine's hidden curriculum
Throughout this century there have been many efforts to reform the medical curriculum. These efforts have largely been unsuccessful in producing fundamental changes in the training of medical students. The author challenges the traditional notion that changes to medical education are most appropriately made at the level of the curriculum, or the formal educational programs and instruction provided to students.