Educating professionals : responding to new expectations for competence and accountability / Lynn Curry, Jon F. Wergin, and Associates.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-362) and indexes.

Part 1: Trends and forces reshaping professional practice -- Sociocultural changes affecting professions and professionals / Christine H. McGuire -- New expectations for professional competence / Ilene B. Harris -- The expanding use of technology / Joanne Gard Marshall -- Increasing pressures for recertification and relicensure / John J. Norcini, Judy A. Shea -- Part 2: Meeting new requirements through professional education -- Connecting education and practice / Sally Hixon Cavanaugh -- Confirming the centrality of liberal learning / Robert A. Armour, Barbara S. Fuhrmann -- Building awareness of ethical standards and conduct / David T. Ozar -- Emphasizing critical thinking and problem solving / Charles E. Wales, Anne H. Nardi, Robert A. Stager -- Learning from corporate education programs / Robert Rippey -- Part 3: Professional education and practice in lifelong partnership -- Evaluating competence for professional practice / William C. McGaghie -- Challenges for continuing professional education / Nancy L. Bennett, Robert D. Fox -- Broadening the concept of scholarship in the professions / R. Eugene Rice, Laurie Richlin -- Setting priorities for change in professional education / Lynn Curry, Jon F. Wergin.

"This in-depth examination of how to educate professionals for the future identifies the social and political forces that will affect the roles of professionals and change the definitions of professional skill. It shows how educating professionals for the twenty-first century will ultimately require stronger bonds between educational systems and our systems of practice--including more accurate measures of competence and a more integrated system of continuing professional education.;"--Publisher description.