Thursday, June 30, 2016
Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation Launched First Program to Accelerate Reforms in Education For Health Professionals
Most of the unending debate about healthcare focuses on coverage and how to pay for it, as well as how to lower costs and improve quality. But there's another important aspect of healthcare that rarely makes the front page: how to teach medical providers.
Similarly, most of philanthropy's health and medicine dollars go toward laboratory and clinical research into new treatments and cures, and to expand access to care.
Rarely do we hear of funders bankrolling innovation of education and curricula for future nurses, doctors and other health workers...