How has medical school changed since you were a physician in training? Hear first-person perspectives from academic physicians on cutting-edge programs at their medical schools.
Faculty at the 11 schools participating in the AMA’s Accelerating Change in Medical Education initiative are sharing their thoughts on the changes their schools are making, the challenges they’re overcoming and the results they hope to achieve.
Mayo Medical School is partnering with the Mayo Clinic Health System to develop educational opportunities for medical students to learn and work in diverse, value-driven collaborative practices. They developed a new longitudinal clinical experience called PIVoT (Patient/population-centered, inter-professional, high-value, team-based), designed to help students care for patients and populations while learning about how health care systems impact patient care, outcomes and costs. Faculty members from the school outlines the benefits of the new experience.
At the University of Michigan Medical School, medical students are getting intensive leadership training to prepare them to excel in the team-based care models required in today’s changing health care system. With this training, future physicians will be positioned to identify problems and opportunities, communicate and collaborate with all stakeholders (including other health professionals, administrators, patients and society as a whole), create a vision of the future of health care and manage the changes that will come. Erin McKean, MD, director of both the Cranial Base Surgery Clinical Innovation Program and the Medical Student Leadership Initiative at the school, shares a special leadership experience first-year students recently had.
Finally, Bonnie Miller, MD, associate vice-chancellor for health affairs and senior associate dean for health sciences education at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, urges other educators to recognize and challenge “educational myopia.”
“While we are tempted to proclaim success, feasibility alone does not prove that the system is meaningful for learners and valuable for the learning process,” she wrote.
The school recently launched its robust VSTAR platform, which provides an electronic “home” for each medical student’s portfolio. Dr. Miller discussed the ongoing improvements the school is making to its new system.
Additional insights from faculty involved in the AMA’s Accelerating Change in Medical Education initiative will be posted to AMA Wire over the coming months. You also can sign up for AMA MedEd Update, the AMA’s monthly e-newsletter with updates on the latest innovations in medical education.
