MedPage Today May 20, 2021
— Interdisciplinary training, early recruitment among ideas presented
WASHINGTON — The healthcare workforce shortage can be improved with some creative thinking, said James Herbert, PhD, at a Senate hearing Thursday.
“We must fundamentally change the prevailing educational model,” noted Herbert, president of the University of New England (UNE), at the hearing called by the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions’ Subcommittee on Primary Health and Retirement Security. Rather than having trainees work in specialized silos, “a new educational model has emerged in which students from diverse disciplines are explicitly trained to work together across traditional boundaries in multidisciplinary teams … And this model has been shown to improve clinical outcomes, to reduce medical errors, to increase patient satisfaction,...
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