Greiner, A. C., & Knebel, E. (Eds.). (2003). Health Professions Education: A Bridge to Quality. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
In 2002, the Institute of Medicine convened a summit of representatives across health care disciplines to change health professions education. In this report, available at www.nap.edu/catalog/10681.html, patient-centered care is seen as a key factor in the transformation as reflected in the vision: All health professionals should be educated to deliver patient-centered care as members of an interdisciplinary team, emphasizing evidence-based practice, quality improvement approaches, and informatics (p.45).
Lewin, S. A., Skea, Z. C., Entwistle, V., Zwarenstein, M., & Dick, J. (2001). Interventions for providers to promote a patient-centred approach in clinical consultations. Cochrane Database System Review. 4:CD003267.
This review included 14 studies that provided training for physicians and nurses to increase their skills to deliver care in a patient-centered manner. The authors concluded that the interventions were significantly effective in increasing providers' level of patient-centeredness and some positively influenced patient satisfaction with care.
Main, D. S., Tressler, C., Staudenmaier, A., Nearing, K. A., Westfall, J. M., & Silverstein, M. (2002). Patient perspectives on the doctor of the future. Family Medicine, 34(4), 251-257.
Seventy-eight individuals representing diverse patient populations, participated in focus groups designed to explore their ideas around what optimal care from physicians would look like. Major themes focused on patient-centered, family-oriented, and community-based service delivery.
Martin, J. C., Avant, R. F., Bowman, M. A., et al. (2004). The future of family medicine: A collaborative project of the family medicine community. Annals of Family Medicine, 2(1), S3-S32.
This article describes the research study and findings of the Future of Family Medicine project. This project interviewed representatives of nine constituency groups, including patients to determine the needs of the health care system. Based on the study, the committee recommended a New Model of practice based on several key characteristics including a patient-centered team approach and elimination of barriers to access. It calls for transforming health profession education and research by building new partnerships to create this model.
O'Neil, E. H. and the Pew Health Professions Commission. (1998). Recreating health professional practice for a new century: The fourth report of the Pew Health Professions Commission. San Francisco, CA: The Center for the Health Professions.
In order to address the challenges facing health care in the 21st century, the Pew Commission's fourth and final report suggests changes to health professions education and offers 21 competencies for all health professions, several of which reflect patient- and family-centered concepts, and one specific competency that calls for, Practic[ing] relationship-centered care with individuals and families (p. 13). The core competencies can be viewed and the report downloaded at www.futurehealth.ucsf.edu/pewcomm/competen.html.