Reforming Your Health Care Reform Curriculum

Reforming Health Care

Such an alarming statement has not been challenged---in fact it is even more widely accepted today. Indeed, throughout wealthy countries (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development) we hear the same kind of systemic problems: • many doctors are disgruntled, overworked and professionally unsatisfied; • nurses are restless and in short supply; • popular demands for more health spending...

AAPM and health care reform: your voice is needed.

The debate these days is not so much about whether health care is going to be reformed, but how.Undoubtedly, therewill be reform; the discussion now is the format in which it will materialize. With the focus onhealth care reformat the national level taking center stage, thismoment in time offers pain care practitioners the ideal opportunity to continue our push for pain care reform. There are m...

Health Reform in the 21st Century: Reforming the Health Care Delivery System

Reforming Healthcare Reform

Current scholarship has not addressed the systemic problems that occur in the process of implementing healthcare reform, tending instead to focus on proposing single reform measures to cure specific problems or on constitutional problems related to the Affordable Care Act. 1 To address that gap, this article carefully analyzes a case study of Medicare‘s efforts to control unnecessary hospital a...

Health science curriculum reform: Outcome evaluation

Th e Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Sydney has recently undertaken signifi cant undergraduate curriculum reform aimed at reducing the number of similar, overlapping units of study and increasing the opportunities for disciplinary mingling at an undergraduate level. Th is paper presents some preliminary fi ndings concerning the impact of curriculum change in the context of a sin...