Partnering with Patients, Families, and Communities to Link Interprofessional Practice and Education
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.
Ensuring an Effective Physician Workforce for America Recommendations for an Accountable Graduate Medical Education System
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:
Institute for Healthcare Improvement- IHI Open School
The mission of the IHI Open School is to advance health care improvement and patient safety competencies in the next generation of health professionals worldwide.
VA Centers of Excellence in Primary Care Education
In August 2010, the Office of Academic Affiliations (OAA) issued a request for proposals to establish Centers of Excellence in Primary Care Education. Part of VA's New Models of Care initiative, the centers utilize VA primary care settings to develop and test innovative approaches to prepare physician residents and students, advanced practice nurse and undergraduate nursing students, and associated health trainees for primary care practice in the 21st Century. Thirty-seven VHA field facilities enthusiastically embraced this opportunity and competed for the Centers.
Ensuring an effective physician workforce for the United States: Recommendations for graduate medical education to meet the needs of the public
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.
Groupthink Theory and Research: Implications for Decision Making in Interdisciplinary Health Care Teams
This paper was originally published in the Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual Interdisciplinary Health Team Care Conference, which took place September 20-22, 1990 at the Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis, Indiana. It is reproduced here with the permission of the authors.
Medical Malpractice and Interdisciplinary Team Dynamics
This paper was originally published in the Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual Interdisciplinary Health Team Care Conference, which took place September 20-22, 1990 at the Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis, Indiana. It is reproduced here with the permission of the author.
Developing a Self Report Measure of Health Care Team Functioning Emphasing Collaboration
This paper was originally published in the Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual Interdisciplinary Health Team Care Conference, which took place September 21-23, 1989 at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. It is reproduced here with the permission of the authors.
Attitudes toward interdisciplinary health care teams
This paper was originally published in the Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Interdisciplinary Health Team Care Conference, which took place September 15-17, 1988 at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio. It is reproduced here with the permission of the authors.
An Historical Exploration in the Political Rhetoric of Health Care Teamwork
This paper was originally published in the Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Interdisciplinary Health Team Care Conference, which took place September 28-30, 1983 in Rochester, New York. It is reproduced here with the permission of the author.