North Carolina medical journal
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In North Carolina, total health care employment increased by 70% between 2000 and 2016. Many health care professions are evolving and experiencing rapid growth due to changes in the professions themselves and in how these workers are being utilized in the health care environment. Academic institutions must stay abreast of trends in health care workforce needs including new and emerging professions.
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Health outcomes in North Carolina are less than optimal. To drive improvement, we must prepare a health care workforce adequate in number, optimally distributed geographically, skilled with forward-looking expertise, and empowered to practice in interprofessional teams at the highest extent of their license. This issue of the North Carolina Medical Journal outlines how North Carolina's health profession education institutions are working to open new programs and innovate curricula to produce the workforce that our state needs.