SEPTEMBER / OCTOBER 2006
       
Meeting the health care needs of an aging population
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The world’s elderly population is advancing rapidly, and with it the burden of chronic disease. What is being done to prepare? HMI World spoke with some of the physicians, nurses, and researchers on the forefront of this important issue. Each approaches the problem from a different perspective, but all agree that unless societies quickly make managing age-related disease a top priority, the supply of trained health care workers will soon be insufficient to meet the needs of the elderly.

What do you think?
HMI World invites reader responses.

  
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HMI creates Center for Clinical Quality to advance excellence in health care and patient safety
The CCQ will forge collaborations that produce improvements in patient safety and service delivery while helping to nurture and sustain a culture of continuous quality improvement.


Faculty development program precedes Caribbean medical school opening
Dominican University of Organization & Methods (O&M) hosted two HMI faculty for a two-day faculty development program in July. The program outlined the university’s objectives and aimed to energize participants to join in the establishment of the medical school.

A special message to HMI partners and participating faculty

Program helps Taiwanese professionals build health care management capabilities

taiwan group

LMU students design curriculum for proposed medical education center

Problem-based learning is focus of program for educators in Portugal

HMSDC endocrinology course to be held in Dubai in November

UAE student completes HMSDC medical librarian fellowship

Pallavi Jagasia recognized with HMI's Employee Recognition Award

HMI website offers prospective partners a convenient way to connect
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New Harvard Macy Institute course aims to help institutions "make the grade"
Goal is to help academic medical institutions design assessment systems to evaluate the quality of their graduates and educational programs

Upcoming courses and events
Program for Educators in the Health Professions
Two-part program with sessions January 14-24 and May 20-25, 2007

Program for Comprehensive Assessment in Health Science Education
March 19-23, 2007

Program for Managing Change in Dental Education
May 13-16, 2007		 Psychiatry by Prescription
Harvard Magazine

Muscle cells grown into working heart cells
Harvard Gazette

Is vitamin D a missing key to TB?
Harvard Public Health Review

Genetic parallels found between lung development and lung cancer
Children’s Hospital

Study identifies potential drug target for Huntington’s disease
Massachusetts General Hospital

Blood clots a late hazard for drug-coated stents
Harvard Heart Letter

What are bioidentical hormones?
Harvard Women's Health Watch
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