The Lancet Commission, Health Professionals for a New Century: Transforming Education to Strengthen Health Systems in an Interdependent World report, based on research funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates
Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the China Medical Board, recommends comprehensive reform in the training of health care
professionals. Like the Future of Nursing
report, it calls for competency-based curricula, creative use of
information technology, transformative learning and interprofessional
teamwork, as well as a systems approach to institutional reform.
In response to both these reports, the Institute of Medicine has called together a Global Forum on Innovation in Health Professional Education
