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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

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
Report

Reducing Missed Opportunities to Vaccinate During Child Health Visits: How Effective Are Parent Education and Case Management?

Reducing Missed Opportunities to Vaccinate During Child Health Visits: How Effective Are Parent Education and Case Management?

Jan 1, 2000
Journal Article

The New Frontier, Increasing Geriatrics Expertise in Surgical and Medical Specialties

The basic principles are straightforward and well supported by research findings and clinical experience.

Jan 1, 2000
Journal Article

School-based Drug Prevention: Challenges in Designing and Analyzing Social Experiments

Many important public-policy decisions rely on evaluating the effectiveness of social interventions.

Jan 1, 2000
Multimedia

Beyond Depression: Partners in Care (video recording)

This script for the PIC patient education video exactly follows the patient-education brochure (RAND/MR-1198/11-AHRQ), providing additional reinforcement for the patient at home or among family members.

Jan 1, 2000
Journal Article

Self-study from Web-Based and Printed Guideline Materials: A Randomized, Controlled Trial Among Resident Physicians

On-line physician education is increasing, but its efficacy in comparison with existing self-study methods is unknown.

Jan 1, 2000
Report

Training Agendas and Materials for Expert Leaders, Depression Nurse Specialists, and Psychotherapists

These training materials will help plan educational sessions for clinicians in a practice, and training sessions for the individuals who will implement the quality improvement programs.

Jan 1, 2000
Journal Article

What Students Bring to Medical School: Attitudes Toward Health Promotion and Prevention

Health care providers positive attitudes toward prevention and health promotion are important in achieving national health care goals.

Jan 1, 2000
Report

Se siente usted... Cansado, Triste, Enojado, Enfadado, Irritable, Sin Esperanza?

This is a Spanish version of the patient education brochure (RAND/MR-1198/11-AHRQ).

Jan 1, 2000
Journal Article

Self-reported Physician Specialties and the Primary Care Content of Medical Practice: A Study of the AMA Physician Masterfile

Many internal medicine physicians report both primary and secondary specialties in the American Medical Association (AMA) Physician Masterfile.

Jan 1, 1999
Journal Article

The Influence of Gatekeeping and Utilization Review on Patient Satisfaction

Influence of utilization review and denial of specialty referrals on patient satisfaction, willingness to recommend physician, and desire to disenroll

Jan 1, 1999
Journal Article

School-based Substance-Abuse Prevention: What Works, for Whom, and How?

The author assesses the degree to which drug use, risk factors, and program effectiveness vary across different racial/ethnic groups.

Jan 1, 1999
Journal Article

How Can We Prevent Emotional Disturbances in Youth Exposed to Violence in Schools?

The authors study examined rates of violence exposure and related distress among youth referred to school district mental health services.

Jan 1, 1999
Journal Article

Measuring the Social Responsiveness of Medical Schools: Setting the Standards

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

Jan 1, 1999
Journal Article

Medical, Law, and Business Students' Perceptions of the Changing Health Care System

Even at entry students may differ on issues that are likely to have an economic impact on their careers.

Jan 1, 1998
Journal Article

The Relationship of Specialty and Training Site on Residents' Attitudes Toward a Changing Health Care System

The results suggest that the attitudes held by residents toward changes occurring in health care may develop prior to entering postgraduate training.

Jan 1, 1998
Journal Article

A Comparative Study of Chiropractic and Medical Education

Chiropractic and allopathic medicine differ the greatest in clinical practice, which in medical school far exceeds that in chiropractic school.

Jan 1, 1998
Journal Article

How Practicing Surgeons Trained for Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy

This paper describes a 1989-1991 study on the training for laparoscopic cholecystectomy received by general surgeons.

Jan 1, 1997

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RAND Topic:
Health Care Education and Training

Topic Synonyms:
Medical Education and Training

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