https://www.selleckchem.com/products/Y-27632.html The health provider workforce is shaped by factors collectively influencing the education, training, licensing, and certification of physicians and allied health professionals, through professional organizations with interlocking and often opaque governance relationships within a state-based licensing system. This system produces a workforce is that is insufficiently responsive to current needs and opportunities, including those created by new technologies. This lack of responsiveness reflects the complex, nontransparent, and cautious nature of the controlling organizations, influenced by the economic interests of the organized professions, which seek protection from competitors both local and international. The first step in addressing this is to comprehensively examine the organizational complexity and conflicted interests within this critical ecosystem. Doing so suggests areas ripe for change, to enhance the health workforce and benefit public health.This article proposes an undergraduate hospice experience course as a new model of experiential learning, one that would provide effective preparation for students entering medical school and that would help them become better doctors. Medical humanities scholars scrutinize narrative models for inspiration and understanding, in order to develop teaching strategies that recognize the importance of the end of life and caring for patients appropriately. The written narrative, however, should not stand alone the spoken, or shared narrative-the story as it is told by patients, friends, and family members-is equally important. Therefore, the authors urge that undergraduate premedical students spend time with patients who are dying. The Medical Humanities program at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) offers an experiential learning course that couples student volunteer hospice service with reflective analysis of the relationship between the end of life