Professional Responsibility: The Fundamental Issue in Education and Health Care Reform

A Brief Introduction to the Problem of Professional Responsibility.- Dilemmas of Educational Practice: Global Competition and Achievement Gaps.- Challenges Facing the Medical Profession in the US.- Professional Responsibility: The Problem and Why It Needs Attention.- How Institutional Contexts Shape Professional Responsibility.- Professional Practice in Complex Organizations.- Erecting the Pipeline for Socially Responsible Physicians.- How Linking University Research to School Needs Influences Scholars and Schools.- Cultural Induction: Professionalism's Life or Death Struggle.- Creating Incentives to Support Professional Responsibility.- Getting Task Structures and Institutional Designs Right.- Educator Professional Responsibility for Family Health.- Professional Ethics and Virtue Ethics in Community Medical Practice.- The Role of Graduate Schools of Education in Training Autism Professionals to Work with Diverse Families.- Preparing Teachers as Momentum Builds for Dual-Language Classrooms.- Policy, Structural, Role and Knowledge Barriers to Best Practice in School Psychology.- Whither Collaboration? The Capacity and Will to Integrate Professional Services.- Collaborative Community in Schools.- Summarizing the Lessons, Shaping a Blueprint.