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In this editorial, the author asserts that, although the current model of academic nursing is unlikely to change in the short-term, it is paramount that those in the field of academic nursing embrace the responsibility to be informed about health care reform and the different models of care (i.e., accountable care organizations, medical homes) and ensure that nursing students at all degree levels have opportunities to learn and engage with these initiatives through IPE and collaborative practice experiences.

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 authors.

This paper explores the models used by different mental health care professionals in an ecumenical setting which provides a context and an idiom for religious concerns of the client.

This paper seeks to explore the following questions:

The report of the Global Commission on Education of Health Professionals for the 21st Century, in The Lancet, calls for a new era of professional education. The production of this report was a tall task, and we applaud the commissioners for taking on such a challenge. Its publication has the potential to profoundly change the way we train future health professionals.

Medical Education in the United States and Canada is a comprehensive report to the foundation, by Abraham Flexner, on medical education in the United States and Canada, with regard to the course of study, financial aspects, medical sects, state boards, post-graduate schools, and other special forms of medical education; with descriptive and tabular accounts of all of the medical schools throughout the United States and Canada; and a general plan for reconstruction, with an introduction by the president of the foundation.