A For-Profit Medical School

Mychaskiw, George; Wiltshire, Whitney

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“…42 The true costs of preparing health professions are being revealed by the rapid growth in the number of private, including for-profit, health professions institutions that have sprung up to meet demand from prospective students. 43 These include osteopathic medical schools and physician assistant programs and umbrella "Health Science" schools that provide training for nurses, therapists, and technicians. Public community colleges in some states fill this niche, but the market Training professionals for the future of team-based care has been recognized as a real challenge.…”

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Reconfiguring Health Workforce Policy So That Education, Training, And Actual Delivery Of Care Are Closely Connected

Ricketts

Fraher

2013

Health Affairs

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There is growing consensus that the health care workforce in the United States needs to be reconfigured to meet the needs of a health care system that is being rapidly and permanently redesigned. Accountable care organizations and patient-centered medical homes, for instance, will greatly alter the mix of caregivers needed and create new roles for existing health care workers. The focus of health system innovation, however, has largely been on reorganizing care delivery processes, reengineering workflows, and adopting electronic technology to improve outcomes. Little attention has been paid to training workers to adapt to these systems and deliver patient care in ever more coordinated systems, such as integrated health care networks that harmonize primary care with acute inpatient and postacute long-term care. This article highlights how neither regulatory policies nor market forces are keeping up with a rapidly changing delivery system and argues that training and education should be connected more closely to the actual delivery of care.

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Section: Innovations In Training and Educationmentioning

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Reconfiguring Health Workforce Policy So That Education, Training, And Actual Delivery Of Care Are Closely Connected

Ricketts

Fraher

2013

Health Affairs

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“…From a monetary standpoint, critics claim that RVU-COM will be indebted to its investors, and as a result educational quality will be sacrificed. 11 If standardized test scores are a reflection of educational quality, this appears to not be the case. RVUCOM reports a 97% COMLEX-I pass rate and a 98% COMLEX-II pass rate, purportedly amongst the top in the nation for osteopathic schools.…”

Section: For-profit Medical Schoolsmentioning

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Maintaining a Sufficient and Quality Physician Workforce: The Role of For-profit Medical Schools

Babcock

Schwartz

2013

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Currently, in the United States there is a significant physician workforce shortage. This problem is likely to persist as there is no quick solution. The nature of this shortage is complex and involves factors such as an absolute physician shortage, as well as physician shortages in primary care and certain specialty care areas. In addition, there is a misdistribution of physicians to medically underserved areas and populations. The medical education system trains medical school graduates that eventually feed the physician workforce. However, several factors are in place which ultimately limits the effectiveness of this system in providing an appropriate workforce to meet the population demands. For-profit medical schools have been in existence in and around the continental US for many years and some authors have suggested that they may be a major contributor to the physician workforce shortage. There is currently one for-profit medical school in the US, however the majority exist in the Caribbean. The enrollment in and number of these schools have grown to partially meet the ever-growing demand for an increase in medical school graduates and they continue to provide a large number of graduates who return to the US for postgraduate medical training and, ultimately, increase the physician workforce. The question is whether this source will benefit the workforce quality and quantity needs of our growing and aging population.

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A For-Profit Medical School

Cited by 3 publications

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Reconfiguring Health Workforce Policy So That Education, Training, And Actual Delivery Of Care Are Closely Connected

Reconfiguring Health Workforce Policy So That Education, Training, And Actual Delivery Of Care Are Closely Connected

Maintaining a Sufficient and Quality Physician Workforce: The Role of For-profit Medical Schools

Anything Can Happen and It Probably Will

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