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November 22, 2012 | Journal Article
This article examines the debate around medical resident duty hours, specifically noting the discrepancy between duty-hour limits and the evidence base to support them. The authors suggest Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) grant programs a research exemption to address the issues of evaluation.
April 15, 2013 | Story
A more highly educated nursing workforce will help meet future health care demands.
October 9, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
Learn about the RWJF Center for Health Policy at the University of New Mexico.
September 14, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
None of these deficiencies are new, and that is what concerns us. The lack of engagement with the sciences of safety, and of human and organizational performance, has implications for practice, for safety, and for understanding and creating actiona ...
August 29, 2012 | Story
Innovations in nurse education are sprouting up all over the country, nurse experts say.
March 13, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
With unprecedented numbers of Americans nearing old age, experts say the health care system will need tens of thousands more providers with training in geriatrics to handle the population’s increasing, and increasingly complex, needs. But too few ph ...
July 13, 2011 | Human Capital Blog Post
One of the great challenges of implementing health reform is training a health care workforce that is well-prepared to meet the needs of the estimated 30 million Americans who will soon be added to the rolls of the insured. To help with that, Medica ...
May 16, 2011 | Story
Leading health educators and foundations release new core competencies and action strategies to implement them.
May 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Community-based disparities education allows future physicians to more fully understand and appreciate how social and contextual factors impact health.
June 16, 2009 | Story
A one-of-a-kind undergraduate program prepares would-be physicians and nurses for a new age of health care.