WIHI - A Podcast from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement
Health & Fitness:Medicine
Date: September 23, 2010
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It’s not easy to turn medical training upside down to better fit the needs of today’s patients and health care system. Consider that the last major reform occurred some 100 years ago and many, many institutions and individuals would say they’ve done just fine with the basics and, besides, some of the new content areas like “humanism” would be nice to know, but they’re hardly essential. I’m going to be a surgeon, after all!
Well, don’t try that out on the Deans of some 20 new medical schools. The attitude also might not wash with a new breed of curriculum architects who pair students with patients in low-income neighborhoods from day one, who insist on the mastery of good communication skills, and who have begun to weave the science and the tools of quality improvement and patient safety in and out of all science and clinical coursework. This is the new reality for future doctors and a lot of the changes are occurring at the grassroots, school by school, with educational leaders and governing bodies just now harnessing the best that’s out there to create a new blueprint for medical training, overall.
Dr. Lawrence Smith is serious about change. At his brand new medical school, Hofstra/North Shore–LIJ, first-year students will, among other things, get certified as EMTs and learn firsthand about teamwork and what patients and families need in crisis situations. At the Wertheim College of Medicine–Florida International University, Dean John Rock is sending medical students into diverse and complex communities so they’ll immediately appreciate medical realities within the context of social and economic realities. The AAMC’s Brownie Anderson, who’s in regular contact with all the new Dean innovators, joins WIHI fresh off a conference highlighting a vast amount of change occurring at all the nation’s medical schools. Whether it’s the IHI Open School or the virtual MyCaseSpace pioneered by the University of Central Florida, change is in the air and on the ground.
WIHI: End-of-Life Care and How Communities Can Become "Conversation Ready"
WIHI: 10 Things Every Hospital Needs to Know to Be Safe
WIHI: The Road to Team-Based Primary Care and Behavioral Health
WIHI: 100 Million Healthier Lives by 2020
WIHI: Optimizing Safety with the Electronic Health Record: The Latest on Glitches and Fixes from the Frontlines
WIHI: Better Care and Better Value for Hip and Knee Replacement
WIHI: Mental Health Care in the Hospital: Preventing Harm, Promoting Safety
WIHI: From Here to CLER: Graduate Medical Education and the Clinical Learning Environment Review (CLER)
WIHI: Tread Water No More! Making Sense of Patient Experience Data
WIHI: Preventing Financial Harm to Patients: The Costs of Care Initiative
WIHI: From Prehospital to In-Hospital: The Continuum for Time-Sensitive Care
WIHI: New Roles, New Routes for Managing Populations
WIHI: Making the Work of QI Less Draining and More Sustaining
WIHI: The Patient-Centered Medical Home: Early Results, Tough Scrutiny
WIHI: Partnering with Patients for Safety: The Next Phase of Work and Commitment
WIHI: Transforming Tensions and Tempers on Health Care Teams
WIHI: Reclaiming Empathy — Best Practices for Engaging with Patients
WIHI: Bright Spots for Patients with Complex Needs
WIHI: How High? How Low? Shared Decision Making Amidst Shifting (Hypertension) Guidelines
WIHI: Mobilizing Skilled Nursing Facilities to Reduce Avoidable Rehospitalizations
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