Social Mission in Health Professions Education: Beyond Flexner
Mullan emphasizes vague role of social mission in education research and service in health professions schools and teaching hospitals in the United States. She notes that social mission is about making health not only better but fairer-more just, reliable, and universal and focuses on the purpose of...
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Veröffentlicht in: | JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association 2017-07, Vol.318 (2), p.122-123 |
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Zusammenfassung: | Mullan emphasizes vague role of social mission in education research and service in health professions schools and teaching hospitals in the United States. She notes that social mission is about making health not only better but fairer-more just, reliable, and universal and focuses on the purpose of education in the health professions, the ethical dimension of what it is to be a teaching institution. Mullan also highlighted the need for health professions community to be knowledgeable in dealing with-even leading-the changes needed to reconcile the potential of US health care at the individual level with the clinical, demographic, and financial realities of the United States. |
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ISSN: | 0098-7484 1538-3598 |
DOI: | 10.1001/jama.2017.7286 |