DOI: 10.5176/2251-3833_GHC18.105
Authors: Alan Gorr
Abstract: Today, discussions of global health often exclude the training of health professionals as an important consideration. It was not always so. Forty years ago when the Handbook of Health Professions Education was published, the education of health professionals was seen as integral to the future of global health. This trend rested on five premises: • Integration of educational sciences into health professions training including behavioral objectives, the taxonomies of learning, and principles of testing and measurement; • The use of statistics as a diagnostic and predictive tool in training and clinical practice; • Understanding the cognitive processes by which clinical decisions were made; • Coordinating basic science and clinical training with the pressing health problems of the population the health professional would serve; • Emphasis on primary care. This paper will explore how these trends actually played out in the U.S. and what the current situation means for the future
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