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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 2024 How Early Career Family Medicine Women Physicians Negotiate Their First Job After Residency. Go to How Early Career Family Medicine Women Physicians Negotiate Their First Job After Residency. 2026 Primary Care Physician Continuity Is a Consistent Measure Associated with Lower Costs and Hospitalizations Go to Primary Care Physician Continuity Is a Consistent Measure Associated with Lower Costs and Hospitalizations 2013 Most family physicians work routinely with nurse practitioners, physician assistants, or certified nurse midwives Go to Most family physicians work routinely with nurse practitioners, physician assistants, or certified nurse midwives 2024 Data Disaggregation of Asian Americans: Implications for the Physician Workforce Go to Data Disaggregation of Asian Americans: Implications for the Physician Workforce
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 2024 How Early Career Family Medicine Women Physicians Negotiate Their First Job After Residency. Go to How Early Career Family Medicine Women Physicians Negotiate Their First Job After Residency. 2026 Primary Care Physician Continuity Is a Consistent Measure Associated with Lower Costs and Hospitalizations Go to Primary Care Physician Continuity Is a Consistent Measure Associated with Lower Costs and Hospitalizations 2013 Most family physicians work routinely with nurse practitioners, physician assistants, or certified nurse midwives Go to Most family physicians work routinely with nurse practitioners, physician assistants, or certified nurse midwives 2024 Data Disaggregation of Asian Americans: Implications for the Physician Workforce Go to Data Disaggregation of Asian Americans: Implications for the Physician Workforce
2024 How Early Career Family Medicine Women Physicians Negotiate Their First Job After Residency. Go to How Early Career Family Medicine Women Physicians Negotiate Their First Job After Residency.
2026 Primary Care Physician Continuity Is a Consistent Measure Associated with Lower Costs and Hospitalizations Go to Primary Care Physician Continuity Is a Consistent Measure Associated with Lower Costs and Hospitalizations
2013 Most family physicians work routinely with nurse practitioners, physician assistants, or certified nurse midwives Go to Most family physicians work routinely with nurse practitioners, physician assistants, or certified nurse midwives
2024 Data Disaggregation of Asian Americans: Implications for the Physician Workforce Go to Data Disaggregation of Asian Americans: Implications for the Physician Workforce
