IGHPE’s Third Annual Conference in Shanghai, China examined the theme of “Innovative Strategies for Developing the Future Healthcare Workforce.” Podcasts from IGHPE Shanghai 2017, featuring interviews with speakers engaged in healthcare education in China or technological innovations in medical education, are now available...
We’re pleased to report that IGHPE Editorial Board member Prof Elizabeth Armstrong has just received the Abraham Flexner Award for Distinguished Services in Medical Education by the Association of American Medical Colleges. Considered the AAMC’s most prestigious honour, the award...
AMSE is a collaboration of European medical schools aimed at improving school standards through education, research, service and collaboration. Together with the members from AMSE, academic leaders attending the IGHPE conference represent schools from Austria, Czech Republic, Georgia, France, Germany, Ireland,...
On April 28-29, Innovations in Global Health Professions Education will host its second annual conference in Venice, Italy. The conference will focus on research and innovations that advance the performance of health professionals and is part of our ongoing aim...
Expression of empathy is an essential part of successful physician-patient communication, a topic discussed in the previous blog post. Moreover, patients file fewer malpractice complaints, and are more satisfied and compliant with the therapy, if doctors express empathy3. But empathy...
Besides health professionals’ expertise in care, communication is important for patient wellbeing3. Proper communication illuminates with empathy what is important for a patient. This will make it more likely that patients change their attitudes and behavior—after all, to agree on...
In China, like in Western countries, a shift towards competency-based medical education3 (CBME) is underway. What is CBME about? Essentially, it evaluates less what’s in physicians’ heads and emphasizes more what they are able to do with their knowledge. CBME...
Nurses often are practical innovators—they find solutions for their patients in everyday practice. A platform such as MakerNurse documents do-it-yourself improvements of patient care. However, when it comes to more far-reaching innovations, ideas are amiss or don’t prevail. The entrenched...
Many people learn better when they are in groups. The reason may be experience of peer-support or feeling social pressure to perform well. A proponent of social constructivism will even say that learning always requires a social context because knowledge generation...
Progress of medicine and, together with it, the wellbeing of patients depend on creative minds. Patel and Chaikof, both affiliated with Harvard Medical School, alert us to the fact that even modern educational tools—problem-based learning, the ‘flipped classroom’, and so on—mostly...
