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1)Various kinds of health professionals—for example, physicians, nurses, dentists, and allied health professionals—are educated in separate schools but with considerable overlap in curricula and training requirements

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1)Various kinds of health professionals—for example, physicians, nurses, dentists, and allied health professionals—are educated in separate schools but with considerable overlap in curricula and training requirements. They are, however, expected to integrate their training and work collaboratively. Identify the advantages and disadvantages of this approach to professional education in terms of costs, educational efficiency and patient care quality.

2. The majority of schools of medicine, dentistry, nursing, and other professions and their teaching hospitals are heavily subsidized by federal and state funds. Many of those graduates, when they become health practitioners, feel no obligation to society for their publicly supported education. Do healthcare providers who reap the benefits of high compensation and social position have an ethical responsibility to repay taxpayers by meeting the needs of the medically underserved?
3. Technical advances in health care have spawned increasing numbers of specialty-trained personnel. More recently, however, hospitals and other institutions are promoting the cross-training of personnel so that they can perform multiple tasks and work more flexibly, based on needs of the institution. What are the implications of cross training, in terms of quality of care, costs, and efficiency?
4. An oversupply of physicians in many urban regions contrasts with continuing problems of access in rural and inner-city areas. Why does the mal-distribution of physicians persist in spite of the number of physicians graduated?

5. Do licensure and other professional regulations serve the public as much as they serve the self-interest of those already in the various regulated professions? Explain your answer.