Health professional education at global scale: The inaugural Lincoln Chen lecture

Abstract

This inaugural Lincoln Chen Lecture comments on five themes raised in the International Conference on the Future of Health Professional Education (University of Miami, November 2022), identifies challenges for the future of health professional education, and highlights the contributions and legacy of Lincoln Chen.

Keywords:

• Global health
• health professional education
• Lincoln Chen

Disclosure statement

Delivered at the International Conference on Health Professional Education, University of Miami, 4 November 2022. The author reports no conflicts of interest. The author alone is responsible for the content and writing of the article.

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Notes on contributors

Harvey V. Fineberg

Harvey V. Fineberg, MD, PhD is President of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. He previously served as president of the U.S. National Academy of Medicine (previously Institute of Medicine), as provost of Harvard University, and as dean of the Harvard Chan School of Public Health.