Impact of Healthcare Professionals’ Education on Healthcare Service Delivery
Education plays a significant role in promoting quality healthcare services by providing healthcare practitioners with the necessary knowledge and skills in handling different healthcare conditions that people in the community experience. Additionally, education enables healthcare professionals to create a conducive relationship with the patients to effectively understand and monitor their medical conditions indiscriminately (Weingartner et al., 2019). Furthermore, education is necessary for medical professionals to recognize the diversity of the medical field globally by orienting them to different cultures and practices. Cultural diversity empowers healthcare practitioners to respect their patients’ cultural preferences when discharging their duties (Weingartner et al., 2019). Additionally, education equips medical professionals with the knowledge of understanding and addressing culturally risky behaviors that undermine global health (Weingartner et al., 2019). This knowledge allows medical practitioners to devise effective ways of addressing such toxic behaviors.
Additional Competencies among Healthcare Professionals
Due to the advancement of technology, the necessity for healthcare professionals to have technological skills has been growing. Technology has become a vital element in improving the healthcare services in different ways including keeping records and conducting vital medical operations, thus creating the need for healthcare professionals to have technological skills (Weingartner et al., 2019). Technological skills promote global health by enabling healthcare professionals to study various infections threatening global health and effectively develop treatment and preventive mechanisms. Moreover, using technology has lowered the costs of accessing quality medication, thus promoting affordable global healthcare.
Additionally, medical professionals need to have teamwork skills to promote collaboration and coordination in handling healthcare issues. It is necessary for medical professionals to have teamwork skills to engage with their colleagues in finding solutions to problems affecting the medical sector (Weingartner et al., 2019). Furthermore, by working together with their counterparts globally, medical professionals learn about the healthcare issues affecting different places in the world and play a significant part in finding solutions.
Reference
Weingartner, L. A., Sawning, S., Shaw, M., & Klein, J. B. (2019). Compassion cultivation training promotes medical student wellness and enhanced clinical care. BMC medical education, 19(1), 1-11.