“What got you here, won’t get you there”: Students as leaders of the change we need

Lack of access, system inequities, and inefficiencies plague our current healthcare system. With a challenge this complex, no one intervention is sufficient; all will be necessary. The primary care system needs a strong health workforce prepared in bold new ways. Students represent an important voic...

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Published in:Healthcare management forum 2024-09, Vol.37 (1_suppl), p.38S-42S
Main Authors: Parker, Kathryn, Binns, Amanda, Dupre, Cooper, Friesen, Farah, Lising, Dean, Sinclair, Lynne, Ng, Stella
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Humans
Leadership
Organizational Innovation
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Primary Health Care
Students
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Summary:Lack of access, system inequities, and inefficiencies plague our current healthcare system. With a challenge this complex, no one intervention is sufficient; all will be necessary. The primary care system needs a strong health workforce prepared in bold new ways. Students represent an important voice, given their role as future leaders of health education and healthcare. For students to lead, educators must leverage education paradigms that position current students as leaders of transformation. Yet, in current health education systems, students are often seen as passive recipients of knowledge and skill. Transformative education seeks to foster critical reflection (an ongoing process of questioning unhelpful assumptions and power relations) and informed action in students to enable them to challenge and change norms and change practices, structures, and society. This article highlights the value of transformative education in cultivating thoughtful change agents and provides one tangible example of a new education/practice model that puts this paradigm into action.
ISSN:0840-4704
2352-3883
DOI:10.1177/08404704241259917