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Health Care Education and Training

Education and training can play a significant role in determining health care professionals' proficiency with the most recent interventions and technologies. Training programs and policies also have important implications for labor market issues in the health care sector. RAND examines how education and training relate to care delivery and quality of care throughout the health care industry.

Journal Article

Journal Article

Nursing Home Infection Control Program Characteristics, CMS Citations, and Implementation of Antibiotic Stewardship Policies: A National Study

National baseline data on nursing home infection control programs will aid evaluations of a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services rule requiring facilities to include an antibiotic stewardship and employ an infection preventionist.

Jul 6, 2018
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Journal Article

How Should Surgical Residents Be Educated About Patient Safety: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial

For training medical residents, a safety workshop compared with a hospital-based online curriculum did not significantly improve overall resident perceptions of patient safety, though the workshop did lead to improvements among senior residents.

Mar 22, 2018
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Journal Article

Efficacy of Educational Video Game Versus Traditional Educational Apps at Improving Physician Decision Making in Trauma Triage: Randomized Controlled Trial

Results suggest that narrative based video games have the potential to influence physician behavior, although the real world implications remain unclear.

Feb 20, 2018
Journal Article

Journal Article

Recruiting Rural Healthcare Providers Today: A Systematic Review of Training Program Success and Determinants of Geographic Choices

Exposing medical students and residents to rural practice during their training is a promising approach to addressing the shortfall of providers in rural communities.

Jan 24, 2018
Journal Article

Journal Article

Barriers to Speaking Up About Patient Safety Concerns

It would be beneficial to combine training of health-care professionals in how to speak up about patient safety issues with training of supervisors in how to manage concerns raised by employees.

Dec 14, 2017
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Journal Article

Governing Academic Medical Center Systems: Choosing Among Alternative Governance Approaches

This assessment of governance approaches for academic medical centers (AMCs) helped the University of California respond to changes in the funding environment and provides a systematic way for any AMC to weigh the strengths and weaknesses of its governance approaches..

Oct 10, 2017
Journal Article

Antibiotics Prescribed as Often During Telemedicine Appointments as In-Person Visits

Patients treated for acute respiratory infections by a doctor on a telephone or live video are as likely to be prescribed an antibiotic as those treated in person. However, patients treated virtually are more often prescribed a broad-spectrum antibiotic, which is concerning because overuse of the drugs increases costs and contributes to antibiotic resistance.

Mar 28, 2017
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RAND's Fidelity Monitoring Protocol for Suicide Prevention Workshops in California

RAND developed a fidelity monitoring protocol composed of adherence and competence measures based on the Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) for the California Mental Health Services Authority.

Mar 7, 2017
Commentary

What If Being a Leader In Public Health Is About More Than Just Health?

Public health leaders should be able to articulate the business case for their work and should have the skills to work with others outside the health sector. Schools could help by preparing students to think beyond the traditional boundaries of public health.

Nov 17, 2016
Journal Article

Journal Article

A Randomized, Controlled Trial of Team-Based Competition to Increase Learner Participation in Quality-Improvement Education

We investigated whether the incorporation of team-based game mechanics into an evidence-based online learning platform could increase resident participation in a QI curriculum.

Feb 29, 2016
Journal Article

There Are More Young Female Anesthesiologists, but Compensation Is Still Lower Than Male Colleagues'

An increasing number of young female physicians are becoming anesthesiologists. But their pay lags behind their male peers, even after accounting for differences, such as hours worked and experience.

Oct 19, 2015
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RAND's Silent Monitoring Protocol for Assessing Suicide Crisis Line Call Content and Quality

Report describes the methods for developing and testing a silent monitoring protocol for California suicide crisis call centers to evaluate call content and quality, document staff strengths and weaknesses, and identify areas for further training.

Sep 10, 2015
Report

Report

Leadership as a health research policy intervention: An evaluation of the NIHR Leadership programme (Phase 2)

The NIHR Leadership Programme was established in 2009 to develop the leadership skills and capabilities of current and future NIHR researchers. RAND Europe was commissioned to undertake a 2-year real time evaluation of the programme.

Jul 21, 2015
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Journal Article

Assessing the Impact of Academic-Practice Partnerships on Nursing Staff

In this paper, we examine the experiences of the VA staff nurses who worked on the units used for VA Nursing Academy (VANA) clinical training.

Jul 1, 2015
Report

Report

Improving Care for Co-Occurring Psychological Health and Substance Use Disorders: An Implementation Evaluation of the Co-Occurring Disorders Clinician Training Program

The report evaluates implementation of a clinician training program to improve care for Navy personnel with co-occurring disorders. Results suggest careful planning for training initiatives could increase implementation of evidence-based practice.

May 13, 2015
Journal Article

Online Training Can Teach Psychotherapists Evidence-Based Treatments

Psychotherapy treatments can lag years behind what research has shown to be effective because there simply are not enough clinicians trained in new methods. But e-learning can be as successful as in-person instruction for teaching psychotherapists how to use newer evidence-based treatments.

May 6, 2015
News Release

News Release

Online Training Can Teach Psychotherapists Evidence-Based Treatments

Psychotherapy treatments can lag years behind what research has shown to be effective because there simply are not enough clinicians trained in new methods. But online training programs can be as successful as in-person instruction for teaching psychotherapists how to use newer evidence-based treatments.

May 5, 2015
Journal Article

Journal Article

Opening the "Black Box" of GME Costs and Benefits: A Conceptual Model and a Call for Systematic Studies

At the heart of the current debate on financing graduate medical education (GME) is a seemingly simple question, how much does it cost hospitals and other health care providers to participate in GME?

Apr 7, 2015
Report

Report

Best practice: Medizinische Aus- und Weiterbildung aus internationaler Perspektive

This is a German translation of a report that seeks to inform the further development of medical education and training for primary care in Germany.

Mar 19, 2015
Report

Best practice: Medical training from an international perspective

This report seeks to inform the further development of medical education and training for primary care in Germany. It concludes with a presentation of policy options that arise from comparison with experiences in England, France and the Netherlands.

Mar 19, 2015

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RAND Topic:
Health Care Education and Training

Topic Synonyms:
Medical Education and Training

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