PUBH 1001 Chapter 9: PUBH 1001 Chapter : Chapter 9 Notes
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Chapter 9 notes: health professionals and the health workforce. How do education and training serve to define health professions: accreditation approach. Implies a process of setting standards for educational and training institutions and enforcing these standards using a regularly scheduled institutional self-study and an outside review: used by most health professions to define and enforce educational expectations, credentialing approach. Programs of public health: the critical component elements of an undergraduate major in. What is the education and training process for physicians: allopathic physicians, graduate with a doctor of medicine (md) degree, osteopathic physicians, graduate from osteopathic medical schools with a doctor of osteopathic. Internal medicine: cardiovascular disease, clinical cardiac electrophysiology, critical care medicine, endocrinology, diabetes, metabolism, gastroenterology. Infection control specialists: health navigation, education, nurse case managers, patient safety, health information systems, disaster and emergency management. How can we ensure the system has the right number of healthcare professionals: limit the people who get into school for certain areas.
