Health professionals for a new century: transforming education to strengthen health systems in an interdependent world
A Lancet Commission highlights a call from 20 professional and academic leaders from diverse countries, for major reform in the training of doctors and other healthcare professionals for the 21st century. They came together to develop a shared vision and a common strategy for postsecondary education in medicine, nursing, and public health that reaches beyond the confi nes of national borders and the silos of individual
professions. The Commission adopted a global outlook, a multiprofessional perspective, and a systems approach.
Changes are needed because of fragmented, outdated, and static curricula that produce ill-equipped graduates. The Commission argues for major reform across the entire medical education system, in order to produce competency-led curricula for the future.
Among the series of specific recomendations for reform, the Commission includes the adoption of competency-driven approaches to instructional design; the promotion of interprofessional and transprofessional education that breaks down professional silos while enhancing ollaborative and non-hierarchical relationships in effective teams; and the exploitation of the power of information echnology for learning.
The Commission calls for a new professionalism that uses ompetencies as objective criteria for classification of health professionals and that develops a common set of
values around social accountability. To read the full report click here