Future Trends in Health Education
The Education & Training for Health Care Transformation Conference
The Ten Pillars Shaping the Future of Health Science Education:
External Forces, Ongoing Evolution and Future Trends
Jeffrey P. Gold, MD
Chancellor & Executive VP Health Affairs
Executive Dean, College of Medicine & Life Sciences
The University of Toledo
The Education & Training for Health Care Transformation Conference
The Ten Pillars Shaping the Future of Health Science Education:
External Forces, Ongoing Evolution and Future Trends
Jeffrey P. Gold, MD
Chancellor & Executive VP Health Affairs
Executive Dean, College of Medicine & Life Sciences
The University of Toledo
The challenge of developing some thoughts framing the future of education and training in the health sciences and on the critical relationship to the delivery of tomorrow’s healthcare in the United States and globally is surely significant. Many have done so, much has been proposed, yet it has never been more relevant and time sensitive than it is today. I am truly honored to have an opportunity to share thoughts based upon the foundations of much experience and a strong desire to help to vision the pillars for future excellence and sustainability in the education & training for the ongoing transformation of health care. Now, more than a hundred years since the time of Abraham Flexner, we have a unique opportunity to look critically at the structure of the educational processes that form the knowledge, skills, as well as the attitudes and behaviors, indeed, the core values, of the next generations of healthcare professionals in the United States.
The
healthcare educational programs in the United States in Medicine,
Nursing, Pharmacy, and the Allied Health professions, have been widely recognized as among the finest in the world. However, the challenges that we now face with an aging population requiring more healthcare, multiple and increasingly severe workforce shortages, and a rapidly
The Ten Pillars Shaping the Future of Health Science Education:
External Forces, Ongoing Evolution and Future Trends
Jeffrey P. Gold, MD
Chancellor & Executive VP Health Affairs
Executive Dean, College of Medicine & Life Sciences
The University of Toledo
The Education & Training for Health Care Transformation Conference
The Ten Pillars Shaping the Future of Health Science Education:
External Forces, Ongoing Evolution and Future Trends
Jeffrey P. Gold, MD
Chancellor & Executive VP Health Affairs
Executive Dean, College of Medicine & Life Sciences
The University of Toledo
The challenge of developing some thoughts framing the future of education and training in the health sciences and on the critical relationship to the delivery of tomorrow’s healthcare in the United States and globally is surely significant. Many have done so, much has been proposed, yet it has never been more relevant and time sensitive than it is today. I am truly honored to have an opportunity to share thoughts based upon the foundations of much experience and a strong desire to help to vision the pillars for future excellence and sustainability in the education & training for the ongoing transformation of health care. Now, more than a hundred years since the time of Abraham Flexner, we have a unique opportunity to look critically at the structure of the educational processes that form the knowledge, skills, as well as the attitudes and behaviors, indeed, the core values, of the next generations of healthcare professionals in the United States.
The
healthcare educational programs in the United States in Medicine,
Nursing, Pharmacy, and the Allied Health professions, have been widely recognized as among the finest in the world. However, the challenges that we now face with an aging population requiring more healthcare, multiple and increasingly severe workforce shortages, and a rapidly