Improving Primary Care through Healthcare Education

Dear Colleagues,

Healthcare education plays a crucial role in promoting high-quality and evidence-based clinical practice at all levels of care. It enables healthcare professionals to enhance their knowledge and skills, starting from university and continuing throughout their careers, to provide the best possible care for their patients. Importantly, primary care plays a pivotal role in diagnosing, managing, caring for, and educating patients and their caregivers, serving as their primary point of contact in the healthcare system. This highlights the importance of healthcare professionals in primary care settings having received adequate education and continuing to pursue further learning opportunities.

We are pleased to invite you to contribute to this Special Issue, which aims to highlight areas and/or methods that could enhance primary care by improving healthcare education. We wish to publish original studies and reviews that contribute towards this goal. The research area encompasses, but is not limited to, investigations into knowledge, skills, diagnoses interdisciplinary care, collaboration strategies, management, and evidence-based practices among healthcare professionals and/or healthcare students in primary care settings. Additionally, we welcome studies on educational interventions targeting healthcare professionals/students and/or patients and/or caregivers in primary care settings.

Dr. Antonios Christodoulakis
Dr. Izolde Bouloukaki
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Healthcare is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2700 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

• healthcare education
• primary care
• diagnosis
• interdisciplinary care
• collaboration strategies
• management
• evidence-based practice
• students
• healthcare professionals
• patients
• caregivers