Challenges and opportunities for educating health professionals after the COVID-19 pandemic

ABSTRACT: The education of health professionals substantially changed before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic. A 2010 Lancet Commission examined the 100-year history of health-professional education, beginning with the 1910 Flexner report. Since the publication of the Lancet Commission, several transformative developments have happened, including in competency-based education, interprofessional education, and the large-scale application of information technology to education. Although the COVID-19 pandemic did not initiate these developments, it increased their implementation, and they are likely to have a long-term effect on health-professional education. They converge with other societal changes, such as globalisation of health care and increasing concerns of health disparities across the

SUBMITTER: Frenk J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9612849 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature