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Foundation Updates

by Stephen C. Schoenbaum, MD

4.24.12

IPE and Simulation in Healthcare

New York, NY

In January, 2012, the Society for Simulation in Healthcare (SSH) and the National League for Nursing, with support from the Macy Foundation, convened two simultaneous meetings on Interprofessional Education and Simulation just prior to the start of the annual 4 day International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare, which this year was in San Diego, CA.

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Foundation Updates

by Foundation Staff

4.4.12

Patient-Centeredness at the Core of IPE

Alexandira, VA

Dr. David Irby of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), moderated the final panel of the Macy conference on interprofessional education (IPE) yesterday. The session featured four senior faculty whose experience and reflections helped define a key message coming from this week’s conference—that patient-centeredness is at the core of IPE.

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News Releases

by Foundation Staff

4.4.12

Macy Foundation Awards $750,000 to Institute of Medicine for Study of Graduate Medical Education

New York, NY

The Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation has awarded the Institute of Medicine (IOM) $750,000 to study the governance and financing of graduate medical education (GME). An independent review of the goals, governance and financing of the system for training physician residents in the United States was one of several recommendations issued by experts at an October 2010 conference about GME reform sponsored by the Macy Foundation.

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Foundation Updates

by Foundation Staff

4.3.12

IPE And The Triple Aim

Alexandria, VA

“What are we trying to get done?” That was the question Don Berwick, former CMS Administrator, posed to participants gathered yesterday at the Macy Conference on Interprofessional Education (IPE).

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