@article {Thomas67, author = {Josephine S Thomas and Toby R Gilbert and Campbell H Thompson}, title = {Preparing the future workforce for healthcare in Australia}, volume = {4}, number = {1}, pages = {67--71}, year = {2017}, doi = {10.7861/futurehosp.4-1-67}, publisher = {Future Healthcare Journal}, abstract = {Medical education fails to prepare young doctors for the nature of the work they will encounter. Doctors face a rapidly changing medical landscape, which relies more and more upon interprofessional collaboration to optimise patient outcomes and upon non-clinical skills to provide care efficiently and cost effectively. The current response to change is a reactive and resource-intensive effort, where established doctors are directed towards new ways of working. A better response would be interprofessional clinical and non-clinical training, incorporating a philosophy and style that accommodate innovation, communication and change. This preparative training should be overseen by a single educational enterprise that links undergraduate and postgraduate instruction. Improved training might enable better design of the healthcare system from within.}, issn = {1470-2118}, URL = {https://www.rcpjournals.org/content/4/1/67}, eprint = {https://www.rcpjournals.org/content/4/1/67.full.pdf}, journal = {Future Healthcare Journal} }