Dr. Patricia Cuff, National Academies of Sciences Global Forum on Innovation in Health Professional Education: Fostering a Multidisciplinary Approach to Improving Healthcare

Episode 104 April 23, 2025 00:32:37
Dr. Patricia Cuff, National Academies of Sciences Global Forum on Innovation in Health Professional Education: Fostering a Multidisciplinary Approach to Improving Healthcare
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Dr. Patricia Cuff, National Academies of Sciences Global Forum on Innovation in Health Professional Education: Fostering a Multidisciplinary Approach to Improving Healthcare

Apr 23 2025 | 00:32:37

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Show Notes

There’s a growing consensus that the best patient care is delivered by multidisciplinary teams, but as you’ll hear on this episode of WorkforceRx, generating solutions to problems facing healthcare and medical education can benefit from the same interprofessional approach. That’s what our guest, Dr. Patricia Cuff, has learned leading the Global Forum on Innovation in Health Professional Education at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine with a membership that includes academic experts and practitioners from many specialties. “Everyone has a voice in the Forum and everyone is considered an important part of the team. This is actually quite rare in education as well as healthcare, where everything tends to be much more siloed.” One of the top concerns identified in workshops and larger Forum convenings is a lack of required education in geriatrics even though the growing elderly population presents a major challenge to the health system. Other key concerns highlighted by Forum members include incompatibility of electronic health records, the high cost of education and provider burnout. Join Futuro Health CEO Van Ton-Quinlivan for a look at what solutions Forum members are identifying for these and other problems and what’s changing, and needs to change, in the education of healthcare providers to create a future with more team-based, patient-centered care.

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