The Center for the Health Professions

July 2008

Centering On…Finding Common Ground

Our health care system is engaged in a process of reinvention that requires current interest groups to find common ground and build upon it. This month, Ed O'Neil discusses the skills leaders need to guide these groups in finding common ground and working together for a better system of care.

To read this essay, click here.

In response to California's increasingly diverse population, there is increased attention to the need for a culturally competent physician workforce. The Health Workforce Tracking Collaborative's newest issue brief, "Diversity in California's Health Professions: Physicians," highlights the racial/ethnic composition of California's physician workforce and medical students. Read the brief here.

The RWJF Executive Nurse Fellows Program has selected its new cohort. Twenty nurses in senior executive roles nationwide have been selected for the 2008 cohort of this advanced leadership program sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. To view a roster of the new cohort of fellows, click here.

Jason Glick, Pharm. D., participated in the CHW Pharmacy Leadership Institute Class of 2006-2007 and is applying his enhanced leadership skills to meet the ever growing needs of his hospital's population. To read more, including the two questions that Dr. Glick believes need to be asked in health care, click here.