[Education Sciences] Special Issue "Health Professional Education: Responding to Population Health Needs"
Dear Colleagues,
There are several challenges facing healthcare systems worldwide. The main challenge is the ageing of the population and the growing burden of chronic disease. Another is the maldistribution of the health workforce such that many rural, indigenous and/or disadvantaged urban communities don’t have access to the range of clinicians required to maintain health and prevent disease. In addition, there are gaps in the health literacy of many populations, and not enough emphasis is placed on addressing the social determinants of health.
This calls for new strategies in health professional education. We need more generalist clinicians able to tackle multi-morbidity, rather than individual diseases, and provide personalised, comprehensive continuity of care. We need to further examine student selection/admission procedures targeting candidates from areas of most need, provide quality clinical experience in these areas and offer motivations for practice there. Finally, we should develop, in all clinicians, the skills and knowledge for health promotion, the ability to work in partnership with colleagues from other professions and patients, to improve health literacy and the impact on the social determinants of health.
This guest-edited issue, “Health Professional Education” invites articles on educational research or strategies aiming to prepare health professionals with the attributes to address current and future challenges in global health.
Prof. Dr. Nicky Hudson
Guest Editor
Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. Papers will be published continuously (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.
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