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Home Research Research Library Recruiting and Training a Health Professions Workforce to Meet the Needs of Tomorrow’s Health Care System Recruiting and Training a Health Professions Workforce to Meet the Needs of Tomorrow’s Health Care System 2019 Author(s) Raffoul, M C, Bartlett-Esquilant, Gillian, and Phillips, Robert L Topic(s) Education & Training, Role of Primary Care, and Achieving Health System Goals Keyword(s) Cost Of Care, Graduate Medical Education, Imprinting Of Training, Population Health, and Undergraduate Medical Education Volume Academic Medicine Source Academic Medicine The quality of any health care system depends on the caliber, enthusiasm, and diversity of the workforce. Yet, workforce research often focuses on the number and type of health professionals needed and anticipated shortages compared with anticipated needs. These projections do not address whether the workforce will have the requisite social, intellectual, cultural, and emotional capital needed to deliver care in an increasingly complex health care system.Building a workforce that can deliver care in such a system begins by recruiting individuals with the requisite knowledge, skills, and attributes. To address this and other workforce needs, the authors argue that health professions education programs must make purposeful changes to their admissions criteria, such as focusing on emotional intelligence and diversity and recruiting students from the communities where they will return to work; partner with communities; ensure that accreditation systems support these goals of fostering diversity; recruit students who can bridge the gap between public health and health care; and invest in health professions education research.In this article, they contemplate how health professions education programs can recruit and educate talented health professionals to create a high-performing workforce that is capable of serving in the complex health care system of tomorrow. They provide examples of successful programs to highlight the potential effects of their recommendations. ABFM Research Read all 2009 Comparing the Performance of Allopathically and Osteopathically Trained Physicians on the American Board of Family Medicine’s Certification Examination. Go to Comparing the Performance of Allopathically and Osteopathically Trained Physicians on the American Board of Family Medicine’s Certification Examination. 1990 Expanding the family practice model Go to Expanding the family practice model 2025 Milestones Progression of International Medical Graduates in Family Medicine Go to Milestones Progression of International Medical Graduates in Family Medicine 2023 Interpersonal Primary Care Continuity for Chronic Conditions Is Associated with Fewer Hospitalizations and Emergency Department Visits Among Medicaid Enrollees Go to Interpersonal Primary Care Continuity for Chronic Conditions Is Associated with Fewer Hospitalizations and Emergency Department Visits Among Medicaid Enrollees
Author(s) Raffoul, M C, Bartlett-Esquilant, Gillian, and Phillips, Robert L Topic(s) Education & Training, Role of Primary Care, and Achieving Health System Goals Keyword(s) Cost Of Care, Graduate Medical Education, Imprinting Of Training, Population Health, and Undergraduate Medical Education Volume Academic Medicine Source Academic Medicine
ABFM Research Read all 2009 Comparing the Performance of Allopathically and Osteopathically Trained Physicians on the American Board of Family Medicine’s Certification Examination. Go to Comparing the Performance of Allopathically and Osteopathically Trained Physicians on the American Board of Family Medicine’s Certification Examination. 1990 Expanding the family practice model Go to Expanding the family practice model 2025 Milestones Progression of International Medical Graduates in Family Medicine Go to Milestones Progression of International Medical Graduates in Family Medicine 2023 Interpersonal Primary Care Continuity for Chronic Conditions Is Associated with Fewer Hospitalizations and Emergency Department Visits Among Medicaid Enrollees Go to Interpersonal Primary Care Continuity for Chronic Conditions Is Associated with Fewer Hospitalizations and Emergency Department Visits Among Medicaid Enrollees
2009 Comparing the Performance of Allopathically and Osteopathically Trained Physicians on the American Board of Family Medicine’s Certification Examination. Go to Comparing the Performance of Allopathically and Osteopathically Trained Physicians on the American Board of Family Medicine’s Certification Examination.
2025 Milestones Progression of International Medical Graduates in Family Medicine Go to Milestones Progression of International Medical Graduates in Family Medicine
2023 Interpersonal Primary Care Continuity for Chronic Conditions Is Associated with Fewer Hospitalizations and Emergency Department Visits Among Medicaid Enrollees Go to Interpersonal Primary Care Continuity for Chronic Conditions Is Associated with Fewer Hospitalizations and Emergency Department Visits Among Medicaid Enrollees
