Advances: Medical Education (1999)
Table of Contents:
- Moving Toward a New Health Care Model
- Family-Centered Care: Questions and Answers
- Innovations in Medical Education
- Humanizing Medical Education and Health Care: A Two -in-One Challenge
- Educational Goals: Core Competencies and Attributes
- Patient - and Family-Centered Medical Education: A Self-Assessment Inventory for Medical Schools
- A View to the Future
- The Association of American Medical Colleges
- Resources
Medical Education: Blueprint for Change
The Institute for Family-Centered Care has had a vital interest in improving the way in which physicians and other health professionals are educated and trained since our inception. During the past seven years, we have worked on-site with the faculty of more than 45 academic medical centers. These leaders requested our assistance in advancing the practice of family-centered care in both clinical and nonclinical educational settings.
In addition to our on-site work, the Institute has held five national seminars for hospitals providing care to women and children that have brought together physicians, other health care professionals, and families to develop action plans for change. The scope of this work includes medical education. Beginning in 1994, we collaborated with the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Vermont and Parent to Parent of Vermont to convene three annual seminars specifically for physician faculty on integrating family-centered concepts and teaching strategies into medical education. A number of innovative initiatives evolved from those seminars.
In 1997, the Institute served in an advisory capacity to the staff of Vice President Gore in planning Family Re-Union 7, a national policy meeting focusing on families and health. One of the concrete results of that meeting was a commitment by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) to provide further leadership in advancing the concepts of patient- and family-centered care in the training of physicians. Recently, the AAMC has encouraged an increased emphasis on the humanistic aspects of medicine in the medical school curriculum through various publications including the Medical School Objectives Project and Academic Medicine. The Institute and the AAMC have begun collaborating to further these goals.
This issue of Advances is based on a "Briefing Paper on Patient- and Family-Centered Medical Education" that we developed as part of our work with the AAMC. The paper was shared with AAMC representatives and medical educators at a planning meeting held in Washington, D.C., in May, 1999. Written by Barbara Blaylock, M.D., it sets forth a blueprint for change in medical education.
During the coming months, the Institute will expand its activities in medical education. We will create a special medical education section on our website (www.familycenteredcare.org). Patients and families, physicians, other medical educators, and medical students and residents will be invited to share ideas, raise issues, and engage in dialogue. We are also creating a guidance packet on creating Family Faculty Programs. Finally, we will continue to convene in-depth seminars.
Whether you are already involved in medical education reform or only beginning to explore its impact on health care delivery, we hope you will find the articles in this issue to be relevant, helpful, and persuasive.
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