NEHI: Medical Education Reforms Needed to Better Serve Primary Care

Healthcare Finance News
August 4, 2010

The New England Healthcare Institute says the quality and efficiency of primary care could be dramatically improved through the use of team-based care…

"The education system for health professionals must implement farsighted changes” if the primary care workforce of the future is to learn how to work in care teams, NEHI officials say in an article published in the August edition of Health Affairs. This will require a “revolution’’ in how medical professionals are educated, the officials said.

The article identifies significant barriers to implementing collaborative education in the health professions, including entrenched cultures, administrative rigidity, curricular requirements and funding limitations...

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