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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.

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Forecasting Demand for Medical Care for the Purpose of Planning Health Services

How complex a model is needed to predict the demand for health services in the United States? To overcome the high cost of obtaining information for sophisticated models, Newhouse estimates a simplified version of a model for predicting ...

Jan 1, 1974
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Choice of Location of Practice of Medical School Graduates: Analysis of Two Surveys

A two-stage nationwide mail survey of U.S. medical school graduates of the class of 1965 was conducted to identify physician location decision factors that seem to differentiate physicians who choose a rural practice location from those who choose ...

Jan 1, 1974
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Economic Implications of Changes in Financing Medical Education.

To increase the supply of doctors, the government has become directly involved in physician education. Of the $673 million appropriated for health manpower programs in 1972, 55 percent was for medical schools. Legislation to date has emphasized exp...

Jan 1, 1973
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FLUIDMOD: A Versatile CAI System for Medical Students.

FLUIDMOD is an interactive program for student practice and instruction in the medical treatment of fluid and electrolyte problems in human patients. Previous instructional programs in this field have been based on teaching numerous rules applicable...

Jan 1, 1972
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Determinants of the Flow of Physicians to the United States.

In 1969 over 2300 foreign medical school graduates obtained a license to practice in the United States. In 1968, 15,582 interns and residents among the 47,494 in U.S. hospitals were foreign educated. The flow of foreign physicians to the United Sta...

Jan 1, 1970
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The Demand for Medical Education : A Study of Medical School Applicant Behavior.

An analysis of medical school applicants to provide government planners with policy instruments that may be used to affect production levels of the medical education system. Potential medical students are responsive to recent earnings developments i...

Jan 1, 1969
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Innovations and Experiments in Uses of Health Manpower : A Study of Selected Programs and Problems in the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union.

A study of British and Soviet health care programs that might be applied in U.S. health services in order to develop new categories of medical manpower. The currently inadequate geographical distribution of medical care in the United States might b...

Jan 1, 1969
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The Effects of Improved Health on Productivity Through Education.

An examination of the relationships between health status and educational attainment, achievement, and absenteeism. Earlier materials on absenteeism, school dropouts, and armed forces rejectees are examined, and new data from a study of school healt...

Jan 1, 1968
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Jason Michel Etchegaray

Senior Behavioral and Social Scientist
Education Ph.D. in industrial/organizational psychology, University of Houston; B.A. in psychology, University of California at San Diego
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Kimberly A. Hepner

Senior Behavioral Scientist
Education Ph.D. in clinical psychology, University of Arizona

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RAND Topic:
Health Care Education and Training

Topic Synonyms:
Medical Education and Training

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