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Hotspotting: 10 steps to help patients hospitalized most

Patients with complex, hard-to-manage needs and chronic conditions drive much of health care costs. ‘Hotspotting” maps their cluster of problems, organizes resources around their needs, and designs interventions to improve care.

ChangeMedEd Initiative
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Med students plunge into ACOs, patient-centered medical homes

Med schools are enhancing students’ experiences by embedding them into patient-centered medical homes and accountable care organizations (ACO)—two models changing health care delivery.

ChangeMedEd Initiative
Meg Gaines, JD, LLM at AMA’s Accelerating Change in Medical Education Consortium
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The physician of the future: More like da Vinci

The changing role of the physician in the delivery of health care challenges med schools to develop new ways of looking at the profession and teaching. The physician of the future’s expertise will span a number of different subject areas.

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AMA, Chicago medical schools continue innovative effort

U of C Pritzker School of Medicine is one of 32 innovative med schools working to expand AMA’s initiative to ensure future physicians are prepared to practice

Press Releases
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Treating the community as your patient

Community health intervention can teach med student a great deal. One of the first things to learn is to listen to the community as you would a patient when planning an intervention.

ChangeMedEd Initiative
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Med schools focus on quality improvement, patient safety

Renewed emphasis on training med students in quality improvement and patient safety activities means schools are changing curricula. Initiatives at three schools demonstrate more comprehensive approach.

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How faculty, students can improve care while saving money

Medical school faculty could do more to cultivate a new generation of physicians focused on containing health care costs, a new research report finds. It outlines the opportunities and obstacles on the road to greater cost consciousness. The ethical imperative Nine out of 10 students agree that physicians have...

Public Health Advocacy
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Health systems science: Teaching med students skills for team-based medicine

Med schools need to provide students with an understanding of the health care delivery system and a better appreciation for the patient experience. HSS becomes the 3rd third pillar of undergraduate medical education.

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Health systems science prepares med students for care beyond exam room

Learning health systems science will help med students be better physicians. Goal is to align medical education with needs of health systems. HSS will help physicians care for patients beyond the exam room.

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