- The Master of Biomedical Sciences (MBS) is the newest masters program in the Duke University School of Medicine. This program delivers a one-year, interdisciplinary curriculum for students aspiring to the healthcare professions and careers in...
The Executive Leadership Team tasked a Green Belt team with utilizing the DMAIC principles and methodology to improve the discharge process within the inpatient medical – surgical patient population as Duke Raleigh Hospital.
• There is increasing interest in promoting exposure to diverse concepts in healthcare prior to traditional health professions’ training, with little analysis of impact or outcomes.
• Post-baccalaureate programs (PBPs) have emerged as a successful...
The current strategic plans for Duke University, Duke Health, and the Duke School of Nursing identify global health as a major priority. The Duke University School of Medicine and School of Nursing have a long history of global engagement and have more...
Interprofessional teams deliver inpatient care; however, research using the inpatient setting as a platform for IPE is sparse. At Duke Regional Hospital, the interprofessional team caring for patients on the general medicine teaching service includes...
- One of DukeHealth’s strategic goals, as reported in the DukeHealth 2016-2017 Strategic Planning Framework, is to “Dramatically increase interprofessional education, research and practice.”
- Ethics education was chosen to explore the potential for...
Internationally, graduate medical education (GME) has evolved using competency based frameworks facilitated by self-directed learning. In this construct, feedback is essential to reinforce good performance, correct deficiencies1 and facilitate...
• Duke medical students learn the foundation for clinical practice in neurology and psychiatry during a first-year course, called Brain and Behavior, which is allocated 17-20 days of contact during the month of January. Of necessity, the course...
There is growing number of interprofessional (IP) experiences offered across Duke health education programs. In the past, assessment strategies have focused on a single IP experience, but not across the entire health professions curricula. No...
Nutritional interventions are important therapies for chronic diseases such as obesity, diabetes, heart disease, hypertension, and liver disease. These interventions require extensive behavioral modifications that can be time and labor intensive for...