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New textbook is first to teach “third pillar” of medical education

New textbook will help medical schools adapt their curricula to teach health systems science. The understanding of how patients access and receive health care is called the “third pillar” of medical education.

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Determining costs to define value in medical education

Medical education is hugely expensive. Are students getting good value for their investment? One school looks at evaluating what they spend on education and what actually has the highest impact.

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Latino medical students host policy summit in D.C.

The third annual Latino Medical Student Association (LMSA) Policy Summit, held Oct. 21-23, was a comprehensive experiential training in Latino health policy.

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Med school lends an ear to those at risk of suicide

Worries about stigma and career impact discourage physicians from seeking mental health services. One medical school combines a variety of approaches aimed at lowering the risk of suicide among med students.

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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.

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Health professionals with disabilities: Ethics and progress

The October issue of the AMA Journal of Ethics® explores what “disability” means, how we can learn from physicians and health professionals with disabilities; and how medical schools can accommodate med students with disabilities.

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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.

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The “structure” of the medical school of the future

With dramatic changes in how medicine is taught, what does the med school of the future look like? The new campus of one school with a focus on interprofessional education reflects its team-based, patient-focused approach.

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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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