¶ … educational curricula or the educational environment influenced by news media? By attitudes or activities of educators and facilitators? By community events or expectations? By regulatory or accrediting agencies?
The most recent example of the effect of the news media on educational curricula that comes to mind was the way that American business schools began increasing their attention to business ethics and ethics-related topics after the public disclosure of the major scandals in American big business. After the infamous Enron, Tyco, and WorldCom scandals, MBA programs began increasing the number of courses devoted to business ethics to prevent today's graduates from falling into the same traps as those that resulted in the highest-profile business scandals reported so widely in the media. Something similar seemed to have happened in healthcare education curricula in connection with problems like transmission of blood-borne pathogens throughout the 1980s and 1990s to prevent HIV transmission during routine medical and diagnostic procedures. More recently, the 2007 changes announced by CMS in connection with reimbursements to hospitals for hospital-acquired infections seems to have inspired similar changes in healthcare education to promote greater attention to preventing those types of infections in clinical settings.
2. Do you think the influences, in discussion question one, have increased or decreased in the last 20 years? What supports are there for your response?
I think it is safe to say that the influence of the news...
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