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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

What We Can--And Cannot--Expect from School-Based Drug Prevention

School-based drug prevention is a central component of drug control strategies.

Jan 1, 2004
Journal Article

Predictors for Medical Students Entering a General Surgery Residency: National Survey Results

The number of general surgery (GS) residency applicants had been decreasing before 2003.

Jan 1, 2004
Journal Article

Childhood Overweight and Academic Performance: National Study of Kindergartners and First-Graders

To examine the association between children's overweight status in kindergarten and their academic achievement in kindergarten and first grade.

Jan 1, 2004
Report

Estimating the Indirect Costs of Teaching

Medicare's Prospective Payment System pays teaching hospitals using a regression coefficient in a log-log cost function. Previous literature showed that this coefficient is sensitive to the covariates included in the function, but specified teaching intensity as the logarithm of one plus the intern and resident-to-bed ratio.

Jan 1, 2004
Journal Article

A New Approach to Developing Cross-Cultural Communication Skills

The need for cross-cultural training (CCT) increases as physicians encounter more culturally diverse patients.

Jan 1, 2004
Journal Article

Interdisciplinary Education: Evaluation of a Palliative Care Training Intervention for Pre-Professionals

This study developed and evaluated an innovative interdisciplinary educational program in palliative care designed to promote interdisciplinary exchange and understanding.

Jan 1, 2004
Journal Article

Social Context and Adolescent Health Behavior: Does School-Level Smoking Prevalence Affect Students' Subsequent Smoking Behavior?

Paper examines the links between individual adolescent smoking behavior and actual and perceived smoking behavior in the individual's school cohort.

Jan 1, 2003
Journal Article

Health Literacy: A Policy Challenge for Advancing High-Quality Health Care : Creating a Health-Literate America May Not Be Easy, but It Is the Right Goal for Health Policy

Health literacy, at the intersection of health and education, involves more than reading ability.

Jan 1, 2003
Journal Article

Using the Chronic Care Model to Improve Treatment of Alcohol Use Disorders in Primary Care Settings

Work is needed on developing tools, self-management support resources and training strategies before the CCM can be evaluated in real world settings.

Jan 1, 2003
Journal Article

Analysis of Errors Reported by Surgeons at Three Teaching Hospitals

Little is known of the factors that underlie surgical errors. Incident reporting has been proposed as a method of obtaining information about medical errors to help identify such factors. Between November 1, 2000, and March 15, 2001, the authors conducted confidential interviews with randomly selected surgeons from three Massachusetts teaching hospitals to elicit detailed reports on surgical adverse events resulting from errors in management (incidents).

Jan 1, 2003
Journal Article

A School-Based Mental Health Program for Traumatized Latino Immigrant Children

To pilot-test a school mental health program for Latino immigrant students who have been exposed to community violence.

Jan 1, 2003
Journal Article

Didactic Teaching Conferences for IM Residents: Who Attends, and Is Attendance Related to Medical Certifying Examination Scores?

This study determines the factors associated with residents' attendance at didactic teaching conferences and the relationship of attendance to residents' scores on medical certification examinations.

Jan 1, 2003
Report

Analysis of the Children's Hospital Graduate Medical Education Program Fund Allocations for Indirect Medical Education Costs

This report details the analyses RAND performed to estimate the indirect teaching costs associated with pediatric discharges and explore alternative allocation policies for the Children's Hospital Graduate Medical Education fund.

May 17, 2002
Journal Article

Initial Practice Locations of International Medical Graduates

Policymakers may influence the flow of new IMGs into states by changing the availability of GME positions.

Jan 1, 2002
Journal Article

A Randomized Clinical Trial to Assess the Benefit of Offering On-Site Mobile Mammography in Addition to Health Education for Older Women

Clinical trial to compare the benefit of offering on-site mobile mammography in addition to an outreach program designed to increase mammography use.

Jan 1, 2002
Journal Article

Graduate Medical Education: The Policy Debate

The cost of providing graduate medical education to the approximately 100,000 medical residents in the United States is approximately $18 billion.

Jan 1, 2001
Journal Article

Mammography-related Anxiety: Effect of Preprocedural Patient Education

To determine the effect of preprocedural education on mammography-related anxiety.

Jan 1, 2001
Journal Article

Evidence-based Dentistry and Health Services Research: Is One Possible Without the Other?

Barriers have been identified in the literature to the implementation of evidence-based practice in dentistry.

Jan 1, 2001
Journal Article

Combining Information: A Key Quantitative Skill for Policy-Makers

This paper emphasizes that education must be lifelong and respond with flexibility as new methodology develops.

Jan 1, 2001
Journal Article

Healthy People 2010: Setting the Nation's Public Health Agenda

This article calls for medical schools to use a new set of standards to gauge how well they contribute to social welfare.

Jan 1, 2000

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RAND Topic:
Health Care Education and Training

Topic Synonyms:
Medical Education and Training

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