...Iris Wallenburg; Jan-Kees Helderman; Antoinette de Bont; Fedde Scheele; Pauline Meurs Recently the medical profession has faced increased outside pressure to reform postgraduate medical training programs to better equip young doctors for changing health care needs and public expectations...

...Lynne R. Davidson This paper asserts that the selection of medical specialty by women physicians-in-training is a “choice by constraint.” Comparative data on men and women interns and residents are provided in order to document parameters of constraint in three separate areas: 1) subjective reasons...

... Area Health Education Center (AHEC) Health Literacy Center, 1 with the support of the Center for Health Care Strategies, Inc., addressed the problem by offering three national skills training workshops called Writing for the Medicaid Market. The training was marketed to public and private organizations...

... prohibits trained nonphysician acupuncturists, mostly Orientals, from performing the therapy. Although all states permit licensed physicians to practice acupuncture with little or no training, few physicians have shown any interest in learning acupuncture and adding it to their practice. The result...

...Paul Beninger Abstract Deep currents of cultural change are having an effect on the medical profession, beginning with gradual decreases in membership numbers in county, state, and national organizations that influence education, training, policy making in the health care sector, and political...

...Scott L. Greer; Robert D. Fannion Abstract It has become increasingly common to hear a business case for wellness that emphasizes the benefits of having a healthy workforce. This is essentially the same as the case for employers to train their workers; training a worker and investing in the health...

... a comprehensive patient-level database and in training staff for making on-site inspections. Duke University Press 2009 Games Policy Makers and Providers Play: Introducing Case-Mix-Based Payment to Hospital Chronic Care Units in Japan...

... evaluate—and mostly counter—potential explanations of why health care prices are higher in the United States: upper-tail income inequality explains higher physician incomes; physicians need to recoup higher training costs; American patients are perceived to have different preferences, while providers face...

... are generalists and 88 percent are specialists. While it is undisputed that US physicians can choose to train in a striking array of medical specialties and subspecialties not seen elsewhere, the perception that the United States has a specialty-dominated workforce is not accurate. The US definition of generalist...

...Rita Linggood; Frank Govern; C. Norman Coleman The processes by which academic medicine will train the next generation of physicians and develop new knowledge have brought to the forefront the relationship between academic medical centers and community hospitals and practitioners. Over the past...

... completed their training now belong. The AMA strengthened its alliances with specialty societies and even tried to restructure the organization around organizational (rather than individual) membership: two hundred specialty societies are incentivized to encourage their members to join the AMA. Earlier...

..., to finance the training of young physicians also hangs in the balance. Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 The Health System in Transition: Care, Cost, and Coverage Kenneth E. Thorpe...

...Harold L. Wilensky It is tempting to oversell the practical value of applied research. A hard look at the effects of U.S. social science on public policy in areas such as active labor market policies (training, job creation, placement, etc.), crime prevention, fiscal policy, poverty reduction...

... that the experiences of family caregivers must be central to the creation of new policies and a more coordinated system that uses the complex work of family caregivers by providing the training and support that they need. © 2007 by Duke University Press 2007 Arber, S., and J. Ginn. 1992 . Class and Caring...

...Carol S. Weissert; Susan L. Silberman In the past few years, eleven states have directed medical schools in their states to produce more primary care practitioners or to change the training of physicians to make careers in primary care more attractive to medical students. This article outlines...

... with government. The article concludes with a discussion of where physicians are likely to continue to be influential in future health policy reform. Three such areas are noted: payment policy,quality and clinical innovation, and medical education and training. © 2003 by Duke University Press 2003 Alford...

...Roger Feldman; Michael A. Morrisey This study documents who health economists are, what they do, and what they think about professional and policy issues. Using primary data obtained through a mail survey of 518 health economists, we found that health economists are well trained by the standards...

..., improved infrastructure, and vigorous monitoring and oversight from federal and state governments, as well as the continued education, training, and policy advocacy provided by the National Association of Community Health Centers and state primary care associations. Copyright © 1996 by Duke University...

..., and parental training in a seamless continuum with strengthened K–12 education. © 2005 by Duke University Press 2005 Acheson, D. 1998 . Independent Inquiry into Inequalities in Health: Report . London: Stationery Office. Adler, N. E., and K. Newman. 2002 . Socioeconomic Disparities in Health...

...Carol S. Weissert; Jack H. Knott; Blair E. Stieber Recent calls for restructuring of the nation's health care system have highlighted the deficiencies in the current system of education for the health professions. Of particular concern are the dominance of specialization and hospital-based training...