The hospitals of the future will be shaped by scientific and technical advances made across
a wide range of disciplines because complex problems in healthcare cannot be addressed …

There is a real need for innovation in health care delivery, as well as in medicine, to address
related challenges of access, quality, and affordability through new and creative …

Who would disagree with the claim that the remarkable growth of standards of living in the
Western world since the 1850s is closely connected to the growth of useful knowledge? Who …

Problem Grappling with complex structural health care issues requires medical
professionals to have training in skills and knowledge that go beyond the basic and clinical …

Graduate medical education has traditionally focused on training future physicians to be
outstanding clinicians with basic and clinical science research skills. This focus has resulted …

Australian universities provide good examples of how to meet the growing challenges to the
training of doctors that have resulted from information overload in traditional curricula, new …

Governments around the world struggle with the challenges of providing good-quality health
care, but knowledge on which to base sound rational decisions is in short supply. This lack …

This book presents the proceedings of the IUPESM World Biomedical Engineering and
Medical Physics, a tri-annual high-level policy meeting dedicated exclusively to furthering …

The Transformation of Academic Health Centers: The Institutional Challenge to Improve
Health and Well-Being in Healthcare's Changing Landscape presents the direct knowledge …

Healthcare changes dramatically because of technological developments, from anesthetics
and antibiotics to magnetic resonance imaging scanners and radiotherapy. Future …