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New competency focus involves structural factors in health

Understanding systems-level forces is crucial to making health care work for patients. Some medical schools are coming around to the idea.

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Chronic disease management has a new tool: The H&P 360

A study in the journal Academic Medicine shows how a modified H&P can help collect more biopsychosocial information to better identify care barriers.

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New model for managing chronic disease begins in medical school

Learn with the AMA where to start to make chronic disease prevention and management a staple of medical education and practice.

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4 phases of adapting to change during COVID-19 and beyond

Learn with the AMA how master adaptive learners invent new approaches to clinical reasoning when older approaches don’t work or novel diseases emerge.

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The power of clinical informatics: A primer for medical students

Learn what comprises clinical informatics and how using certain techniques can improve how physicians and other health care workers deliver care.

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How medical improv training sparks better communication, teamwork

Research shows improv training provides lasting insights for medical students starting their clinical rotations.

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Medical students: Start here to learn about health systems science

This third pillar of medical education provides insight into an increasingly complex health care system, never more critical than when medicine is tested by a global pandemic.

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Revising the history and physical for new era in medicine

A new model of the history and physical exam—the H&P 360—can help physicians adapt to their changing role in the health care system.

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Why the physician of the future is a master adaptive learner

A new metacognitive approach provides a practical framework for learners at all development levels in medicine to acquire adaptive expertise.

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