News in brief 4 ways to improve graduate medical education Steven Wartman, the president of the Association of Academic Health Centers, detailed in Health Affairs the following steps to improve GME. Aug. 22, 2016Monday AOA Staff Contact AOA Staff Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Steven Wartman, the president of the Association of Academic Health Centers, writes in Health Affairs about ways to improve the state of graduate medical education. Wartman offers four steps to improve U.S. graduate medical education: Improve the relationship between academic institutions and the delivery systems that will eventually employ their students. Redistribute the cost of education so that debt will be less likely to play an instrumental role in students’ career and specialty choices. Speed up the time it takes to go through training by better aligning premed education, medical school and residency training. Make sure accreditors and licensers are pushing real industry improvements and supporting the transformative changes necessary to evolve the health care system. Read Wartman’s full Health Affairs piece for more insights and takeaways on the future of American GME. More in Newsbriefs DO to lead Mississippi physician workforce office, DO student co-authors educational children’s book Richard Calderone, DO, MPH, is the new director of the Office of Mississippi Physician Workforce, and Brooke Birks, OMS IV, published a children’s book. Free holistic residency application review platform will soon be available for residency programs that use ERAS Cortex, an AI-enabled platform, is designed to provide technology-assisted holistic review by streamlining application screening and review. Previous articleStep 2 of the #SaveOMT campaign: Exclude OMT codes from CMS review Next articleOsteopathic educator wins award for researching empathy in med students
DO to lead Mississippi physician workforce office, DO student co-authors educational children’s book Richard Calderone, DO, MPH, is the new director of the Office of Mississippi Physician Workforce, and Brooke Birks, OMS IV, published a children’s book.
Free holistic residency application review platform will soon be available for residency programs that use ERAS Cortex, an AI-enabled platform, is designed to provide technology-assisted holistic review by streamlining application screening and review.
“delivery systems that will eventually employ there students” . Strange, most of the accomplished residents I know went into private practice settings, employed by themselves. The others…..well “delivery systems that …….”. Sep. 8, 2016, at 11:18 am Reply