TY - JOUR
T1 - A radical new treatment for the sick health workforce
AU - Del Mar, Christopher B.
AU - Dwyer, Naomi
PY - 2006/7/3
Y1 - 2006/7/3
N2 - • The health workforce crisis needs radical treatment; simply educating more health workers will be insufficient, and role substitution among existing health workers is untenable. • We propose a new class of health worker who would take on single disease or single procedure responsibilities, working mostly to protocols; and be embedded within current structures. • We also propo se modular health education which has fewer entry points into the health system, allows transfer between different disciplines, and is based on modules that can be accumulated to allow progress through the system to gain more clinical responsibility.
AB - • The health workforce crisis needs radical treatment; simply educating more health workers will be insufficient, and role substitution among existing health workers is untenable. • We propose a new class of health worker who would take on single disease or single procedure responsibilities, working mostly to protocols; and be embedded within current structures. • We also propo se modular health education which has fewer entry points into the health system, allows transfer between different disciplines, and is based on modules that can be accumulated to allow progress through the system to gain more clinical responsibility.
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U2 - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2006.tb00448.x
DO - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2006.tb00448.x
M3 - Article
C2 - 16813547
AN - SCOPUS:33745935001
SN - 0025-729X
VL - 185
SP - 32
EP - 34
JO - Medical Journal of Australia
JF - Medical Journal of Australia
IS - 1
ER -