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Defining Excellence In Healthcare Design: The Role Of Personal Qualities, Roger J. Vitello
Defining Excellence In Healthcare Design: The Role Of Personal Qualities, Roger J. Vitello
Interior Design Program: Theses and Other Student Work
Healthcare design has been recognized as a legitimate area of specialization[1], a field. Expertise in the healthcare design and building process is needed. Where and how future healthcare design practitioners will be educated remains a challenge. While the evolution of research-based design for health facilities has grown since the 1980s little is known about how healthcare designers should be educated. [2] An understanding of personal qualities a graduating student is expected to possess is important to their education. [3] Knowledge about the qualities that determine excellence in healthcare design practice is sparse. By understanding which qualities have been …