Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation

The Continuously Learning Health System: Recommendations From the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation.

Chairman's summary of the conference. Continuing education in the health professions: improving healthcare through lifelong learning.

Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation • 44 East 64th Street, New York, NY 10065 • 212 486-2424 1 ontinuing education (CE) of health professionals is essential to the health of all Americans.With accelerating advances in health information and technology, physicians, nurses and other health professionals must maintain and improve their knowledge and skills throughout their careers in order to provide safe...

Cybernetics: Circular Causal and Feedback Mechanisms in Biological and Social Systems

CONNECTIVE TISSUES. Charles Ragan, Ed. Transactions of the Fourth Conference. February 18-20, 1953. New York, Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation, 1953. 197 pp. $3.75. A conference on connective tissues is sponsored yearly by the Josiah Macy Foundation. Its purpose is to initiate an exchange of ideas among workers interested in the problem and who are drawn from varied disciplines, i.e., biochemistry, ...

Medical education in the 21st century.

This commentary is a reaction of medical educators and health practitioners to the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation's recently released report, Revisiting the Medical School Mission at a Time of Expansion. The report is a fresh assessment of what more medical schools must do to prepare students for 21st century challenges and opportunities to improve the health status of the population including unde...

The papers of Josiah Bartlett

That the Western scientific and medical tradition is built on Greek foundations is well known: what is far less obvious is how and why Greek science arose and developed, and what distinguished it from its Egyptian and Babylonian contemporaries. In this'elegant book, Dr. Lloyd addresses himself to these difficult questions and points towards their solution. He examines again the role of magic an...