TY - JOUR T1 - Viewpoint: Healthcare professional education: its role in influencing career choices in primary care JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 257 LP - 257 DO - 10.3399/bjgp16X684997 VL - 66 IS - 646 AU - Kieran Walsh Y1 - 2016/05/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/66/646/257.abstract N2 - The future of health care is changing and healthcare professional education needs to change with it. In many ways the future of health care is eminently predictable. Changing patient and population demographics mean that there is a need for more primary care, more accessible care, more chronic disease management, more interprofessional teamwork, and more flexible care. Indeed, it is only by these means that we will be able to provide health care for the poor and underserved sections of the population. This list of required changes is not exhaustive — there are other changes afoot — but it is simply impossible to list them all here in a short article. Nonetheless, this is broadly the direction of travel of health care, and healthcare professional education will therefore need to travel in the same … ER -