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June 1, 2006 | Journal Article
This introduction, written as a forward to a supplement on improving diversity in the health professions, summarizes some of the history of the Health Professions Partnership Initiative (HPPI), and reiterates the pressing need to increase representa ...
August 1, 2006 | Journal Article
Most physicians and hospitals are paid the same regardless of the quality of the health care they provide, but increasing numbers of health programs link payment to physician and hospital performance as an incentive to improve the quality of care. T ...
June 1, 2007 | Journal Article
Lessons from Social-Cognitive Psychology
October 1, 2007 | Journal Article
This paper is aimed at junior clinical researchers and addresses time management issues associated with balancing the competing demands of academic medicine. The authors identify a number of strategies, including: figuring out which goals are the mo ...
September 9, 2009 | Program Result
The Health Professions Partnership Initiative was designed to enhance the academic preparation of minority students and nurture their interest in health careers.
May 1, 2005 | Journal Article
The Step 2 Clinical Skills (CS) is a one day test requiring medical students to examine and evaluate a series of standardized patients. It was developed in response to the need for an objective measure of clinical skills. This study examined the rel ...
October 22, 2007 | Journal Article
Graduate medical education poses unique challenges for the delivery of safe patient care because work carried out by medical trainees often involves special risks. Although those in the medical profession recognize these risk factors, there have bee ...
April 9, 2008 | Program Result
The goal of Partnerships for Quality Education (PQE) was to align training of physicians and nurse practitioners with the demands of 21st century clinical practice.
December 20, 2007 | Program Result
This report highlights some of the many initiatives RWJF has supported to widen the pipeline for minorities entering health professions, including Pipeline, Profession and Practice and Jobs to Careers.
March 1, 2003 | Program Result
The Association of American Medical Colleges published a 250-page anthology, Ten Years of Medicine and Arts, as part of the organization's 125-year anniversary celebration in 2001.