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

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Frenk, Julio, Chen, Lincoln C, Chandran, Latha, Groff, Elizabeth O H, King, Roderick, Meleis, Afaf, Fineberg, Harvey V·2022·The Lancet

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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 world, that were exacerbated by the pandemic. In this Health Policy, we list institutional and instructional reforms to assess what has happened to health-professional education since the publication of the Lancet Commission and how the COVID-19 pandemic altered the education process.

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Authors
Frenk, J., Chen, L. C., Chandran, L., Groff, E. O. H., King, R., Meleis, A., & Fineberg, H. V.
Affiliations
  • University of Miami (US)
  • University of Maryland, Baltimore (US)
  • University of Pennsylvania (US)
  • Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation (US)
Corresponding author
Chandran, Latha
Venue
The Lancet
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2022-10
Volume
400
Issue
10362
Pages
1539-1556
ISSN
  • 0099-5355 (ISSN-L)
  • 0140-6736
OpenAlex
W4307420006
Cited by
369
References
149
Citations by year
2026: 82 · 2025: 106 · 2024: 113 · 2023: 65 · 2022: 2
FWCI
14.20
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • The Lancet (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Innovations in Medical Education
  • Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Health and Medical Education
  • Social Sciences › Education › E-Learning and COVID-19
Keywords
health professions education, COVID-19 pandemic, competency-based education, interprofessional education, educational technology, institutional reform, teaching reform, health disparities, history of medical education
MeSH terms
COVID-19, Delivery of Health Care, Health Personnel, Humans, Pandemics

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