A Global Vision of Reform
An independent commission of 20 academic leaders from around the world recommends comprehensive reform in the training of healthcare professionals, in a major new report published in The Lancet on 4 December 2010. The report calls for competency-based curricula, creative use of information technology, transformative learning, and inter-professional teamwork, as well as a systems approach to institutional reforms. The report was launched at a Harvard symposium on November 29-December 1, 2010, organized by the Harvard School of Public Health, China Medical Board and The Lancet. Report findings are also being disseminated at conferences and meetings around the world.
This website will provide news on progress, global networking opportunities, and other ways to connect for all who share this global vision of reform. The aim is to generate successful health education reform models, adaptable by individual nations, and ultimately, equitable high-quality health services for all.
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August Update from Co-Chairs
Even during these summer months we have quite a few activities to report. Both of us are still frequently asked to present our Lancet report findings. One of us (JF) presented them to more than 150 students and faculty of the Dalla Lana School of Public Health and University of Toronto community in Canada last month. LC will be presenting a keynote on transforming health professional education next month in Thailand for the International Conference in Medicine and Public Health 2012.
Other commissioner colleagues are also disseminating the findings, including Barry Kistnasamy (of University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa), at a MEPI workshop in June, and coming up next month, Zulfi Bhutta (Aga Khan University Medical Center in Pakistan) and David Serwadda (former Dean of the Makerere School of Public Health in Uganda) at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden.
IOM Selects Four Innovation Collaboratives
The U.S. Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) Board on Global Health has chosen 4 from 12 proposals from academic institutions around the world. The collaboratives are intended to incubate and pilot ideas for reforming health professional education called for in the Lancet Commission report and will be a key part of IOM’s new , to be launched in March 2012. The development of the Forum has been spearheaded by Patrick Kelley, MD, DrPH, who is director of the Boards on Global Health and African Science Academy Development at IOM and was one of the Lancet report Commissioners.
Progress on IAMP International Dissemination and Advocacy Project
Since signing on in October 2011 as a partner in the global reform effort, the InterAcademy Foundation of the InterAcademy Medical Panel (IAMP), led by Bernie Jones, has taken advantage of several opportunities to increase global dialogue and spur health professional education reform.