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8.21.18
Developments, Not Dust: Progress on the 2017 Report, Registered Nurses: Partners in Transforming Primary Care?
Is the dust gathering on the 2017 Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation report on Registered Nurses: Partners in Transforming Primary Care?
Hardly.
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7.25.18
How Can We Educate and Train to Professionalism?
New York, NY
The report summarizes a convening of the 19 grantees who received funding from the national initiative, Educating and Training to Professionalism, co-sponsored by the Macy Foundation.
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4.18.18
A Holistic Approach to Patient Care: Social Work
New York, NY
Charlotte Sanders, MSW, teaching associate and Northwest Leaders in Behavioral Health Program field lead for the University of Washington School of Social Work, has been working in social services for more than 22 years. We sat down with Sanders to learn more about the important role of social work in health care today.
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4.9.18
The Road Traveled for New Medical Schools
New York, NY
Twenty-one new medical schools have enrolled students since 2006, when the AAMC called for an increase in U.S. medical school enrollment. In this latest report, Dr. Mike Whitcomb looks at the six schools that have opened most recently.
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