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Emerging Market Medical Education Goes Digital
The global healthcare talent gap is particularly acute in the world’s poorest countries. The World Health Organization estimates that the world needs more than 7 million additional skilled health professionals, with shortages at crisis proportions in many parts of South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Africa.
The WHO predicts the crisis will only worsen in coming years, but that may underestimate the potential impact of new e-learning technologies to enable low-cost medical training at scale. Many universities, government health agencies, NGOs, private companies, and doctors around the world are embracing such technologies, sometimes with promising results.
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Training the Next Generation of Doctors and Nurses
For decades, medical education has followed a timeworn path — heaps of book learning and lectures, then clinical rotations exposing students to patients. But as technology explodes into patient care (surgeons can preview operations using virtual 3-D images built from a patient’s scans), the gap between medical education and real-world care has “become a chasm,” said Marc Triola, director of N.Y.U. Langone’s Institute for Innovations in Medical Education, created in 2013 to address the issue.
HOW TO Prepare The Future Generation of Physicians
As patients are becoming the point-of-care, the doctor-patient relationship has started to shift towards an equal-level partnership, and digital technology plays a more and more critical role in healthcare, it is of utmost importance to prepare the future generation of physicians for what they could expect during their future career.
Time to Revisit Medical Education ... and Not Just for Physicians
Do docs spend too much time in school, or do NPs and PAs not spend enough?
Training the Next Generation of Doctors and Nurses
In what looks like an urgent game of catch-up, medical and nursing schools across the country are retooling how and what they teach. This is also getting a boost from concern about the looming shortage of primary caregivers.
Getting to Know Our Patients
Listening to patients is a critical part of a doctor’s education.
Emerging Market Medical Education Goes Digital
In many places, health workers are taking CME into their own hands simply by going online to improve their knowledge and skills. In the Philippines, for example, a group of doctors founded an online community called HealthXPh that uses social media to mobilize discussion about healthcare topics.
Foundation for Advancement of International Medical Education and Research
FAIMER is a non-profit foundation committed to improving world health through education.
International Association for Medical Education
AMEE organises an annual conference and delivers courses on teaching, assessment and research skills for teachers in medicine and the healthcare professions.
Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care
AAAHC is a private, non-profit organization formed in 1979. We are the leader in developing standards to advance and promote patient safety, quality care, and value for ambulatory health care through peer-based accreditation processes, education, and research.
Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education
Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education is the national agency for the accreditation of professional degree programs in pharmacy and providers of continuing pharmacy education.
Association for Hospital Medical Education
The Association for Hospital Medical Education is a national, non-profit professional organization involved in the continuum of hospital-based medical education: undergraduate, graduate, and continuing medical education.
Association for Standardized Patient Educators
ASPE is the international organization for professionals in the field of SP methodology.
Association for the Study of Medical Education
The ASME seeks to improve the quality of medical education by bringing together individuals and organisations with interests and responsibilities in medical and healthcare education.
Association of American Medical Colleges
The AAMC and the medical schools, teaching hospitals, academic and professional societies, faculty, residents, and students we represent are committed to improving the nation's health through medical education, research, and high-quality patient care.
Canadian Association for Medical Education
Our site promotes excellence and scholarship in all aspects of medical education by advocating for medical education and medical educators, by supporting faculty and educational development, and by encouraging research in medical education through networking and scientific activities.
International Association of Medical Science Educators
The AMC can serve as the "Brick and Mortar" of the non-profit association providing not only a physical address but administrative support. The AMC staff can provide the day-to-day support that an association would need - database management, customer service, email support, telephone support and more.
National Association of Clinical Tutors
The NACT supports, informs and develops Clinical Tutors, Directors of Medical Education and all those with a leadership role in generic postgraduate medical education.
National Board of Medical Examiners
The NBME is an independent, not-for-profit organization that provides high-quality examinations for the health professions.
World Federation for Medical Education
WFME is the global organization concerned with education and training of medical doctors.
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
The Agency of Healthcare Research improves the quality, safety, efficiency, and effectiveness of health care for all Americans.
Institute for Healthcare Improvement
IHI is a reliable source of energy, knowledge, and support for a never-ending campaign to improve health care worldwide. The Institute helps accelerate change in health care by cultivating promising concepts for improving patient care and turning those ideas into action.
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