Global Health and Tropical Medicine, Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal.
Office for the Promotion of Global Healthcare Equity, Division of Physician Assistant Studies, Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
Int J Health Policy Manag. 2017 Jan 1;6(1):57-59. doi: 10.15171/ijhpm.2016.97.
This commentary follows up on an editorial by Eyal and colleagues in which these authors discuss the implications of the emergence of non-physician clinicians (NPCs) on the health labour market for the education of medical doctors. We generally agree with those authors and we want to stress the importance of clarifying the terminology to describe these practitioners and of defining more formally their scope of practice as prerequisites to identifying the new competencies which physicians need to acquire. We add one new competencies domain, the utilization of new communication technologies, to those listed in the editorial. Finally, we identify policy issues which decision-makers will need to address to make medical education reform work.
本评论是对 Eyal 及其同事的一篇社论的后续，该社论讨论了非医师临床医生（NPCs）的出现对医生教育的医疗劳动力市场的影响。我们基本同意这些作者的观点，并希望强调澄清术语以描述这些从业者的重要性，并更正式地界定他们的实践范围，以此作为确定医生需要获得的新能力的前提。我们在社论中列出的新能力领域中增加了一个新的领域，即利用新的通信技术。最后，我们确定了决策者需要解决的政策问题，以使医学教育改革取得成功。
