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From the Institute of Medicine's Committee on Planning a Continuing Health Care Professional Educational Institute, this volume details a vision for a better continuing education system for health professionals through a comprehensive approach of continuing professional development and a framework on which to develop a new, more effective system. It refocuses the perspective from continuing education to continuing professional development, with the goal of high quality, safe health care, and offers principles to guide the creation of an institute. It assesses current methods, and addresses financing and regulation, alternatives to a continuing education institute, what a better system would look like in 10 years, the function and structure of an institute, and its implementation, research, and evaluation. Educational methods and approaches are not covered. No index is included. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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"Today in the United States, the professional health workforce is not consistently prepared to provide high quality health care and assure patient safety, even as the nation spends more per capita on health care than any other country. The absence of a comprehensive and well-integrated system of continuing education (CE) in the health professions is an important contributing factor to knowledge and performance deficiencies at the individual and system levels. To be most effective, health professionals atevery stage of their careers must continue learning about advances in research and treatment in their fields (and related fields) in order to obtain and maintain up-to-date knowledge and skills in caring for their patients. Many health professionals regularly undertake a variety of efforts to stay up to date, but on a larger scale, the nation's approach to CE for health professionals fails to support the professions in their efforts to achieve and maintain proficiency. Redesigning Continuing Education inthe Health Professions illustrates a vision for a better system through a comprehensive approach of continuing professional development, and posits a framework upon which to develop a new, more effective system. The book also offers principles to guide the creation of a national continuing education institute."--Publisher's description.
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