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 appointed to VA leadership role Haipeng “Mark” Zhang, DO, will serve as acting assistant under secretary for health. Poetry collection by DO explores healing, resilience Lt. Col. Ivan Edwards, DO, Air Force Reserve flight surgeon, has released “Resonance of the Soul: Flowers and Harmonics,” a poetry collection that gives voice to healing and human stories. Previous articleStep 2 of the #SaveOMT campaign: Exclude OMT codes from CMS review Next articleOsteopathic educator wins award for researching empathy in med students
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Poetry collection by DO explores healing, resilience Lt. Col. Ivan Edwards, DO, Air Force Reserve flight surgeon, has released “Resonance of the Soul: Flowers and Harmonics,” a poetry collection that gives voice to healing and human stories.
“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