Redesigning Continuing Education in the Health Professions

by Committee on Planning a Continuing Healt, Institute of Medicine, Committee on Planning a Continuing Health Care Professional Education Institute, et al.

Book Overview

Today in the United States, the professional health workforce is not consistently prepared to provide high quality health care and assure patient safety, even as the nation spends more per capita on health care than any other country. The absence of a comprehensive and well-integrated system of continuing education (CE) in the health professions is an important contributing factor to knowledge and performance deficiencies at the individual and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309140781
• ISBN13: 9780309140782
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.