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Population health should be major focus in remaking med ed

Population-health expert David Nash, MD, says it is time for medical schools to help “retool the factory floor for the future.”

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Going beyond clinic’s 4 walls to address health’s social roots

Addressing health’s social determinants means confronting the reality that a patient’s health is not treated exclusively within an office setting.

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Population health management makes its way to med school

A better understanding of data and the social determinants of health can help tomorrow’s physicians improve health at the community level.

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Patient safety culture should start in medical school

A new textbook helps physicians-in-training understand how systems can contribute to medical errors and how to handle such incidents and near misses.

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Despite hiccups, online learning tools bring value to med ed

Online learning is here to stay. How can it be leveraged to optimize medical education? Two medical school educators share their experiences.

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Virtual EHR helps residents learn complexity of elder care

In training residents in electronic health record (EHR) applications, one school is extending lessons to geriatric care—with a team approach. 

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Virtual families offer med students new twist on case studies

Award-winning tool lets Virginia students interact with diverse patient stories to better appreciate the barriers real patients face.

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Innovative EHR platform brings 11,000 true-life cases to med ed

The University of Connecticut is one of several medical schools using an adapted EHR for case presentation. The platform features thousands of records with real patient data.

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AMA, Regenstrief Institute help increase EHR training in med schools

A new training platform will help ensure physicians and other health care professionals learn how to use EHRs to deliver patient care in modern health system

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