PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Josephine S Thomas
AU  - Toby R Gilbert
AU  - Campbell H Thompson
TI  - Preparing the future workforce for healthcare in Australia
AID  - 10.7861/futurehosp.4-1-67
DP  - 2017 Feb 01
TA  - Future Hospital Journal
PG  - 67--71
VI  - 4
IP  - 1
4099  - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/4/1/67.short
4100  - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/4/1/67.full
SO  - Future Hosp J2017 Feb 01; 4
AB  - 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.