Medical Training for the Next Economy

We’ve gone from post-Cold War growth and healthy budgets to economic uncertainty and instability and shrinking bottom lines—welcome to what pundits have dubbed the "Next Economy." Concerned over potential impacts to employer-provided training, the American Society for Training and Development focused its most recent state of the industry report, released in January, on what’s happening to training in this less-than-hospitable environment. While only 8 percent of the 270 organizations