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How do health care education and training professionals learn about the environment?
H R Glazer1, D S Stein, D S Schafer
1University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.
Journal of Healthcare Education and Training : the Journal of the American Society for Healthcare Education and Training
|December 9, 1992
Summary
Health care educators prioritize regulatory and customer environments over technological ones. This focus is linked to their management styles, impacting future healthcare system preparation.
Area of Science:
- Healthcare Management
- Environmental Scanning Behavior
Background:
- Future healthcare systems require environmental information abstraction.
- Understanding how healthcare educators scan their environment is crucial.
Purpose of the Study:
- To examine environmental scanning behaviors of healthcare educators.
- To determine the relationship between scanning behavior and management style.
Main Methods:
- The study analyzed how healthcare educators scan their environment.
- It investigated the correlation between scanning patterns and management approaches.
Main Results:
- Healthcare education professionals predominantly scan regulatory and customer sectors.
- Technological and sociopolitical sectors receive less attention from these professionals.
Conclusions:
- Healthcare educators' focus on specific environmental sectors influences their preparation for future healthcare systems.
- Management style appears to be a factor in environmental scanning priorities.