The delivery system is influencing education, and educating is improving the delivery system. Education, scholarship and service all work together in the virtuous cycle.
Michael Good, M.D., Dean of the College of Medicine at the University of Florida, teaches students and providers to stay focused on patients. Change will work itself out.
How do you break down silos to improve care to underserved populations and improve coordination between medical schools and teaching hospitals? What can we learn from Ghana? In this conversation...
Shana Sandberg with the AAMC's Center for Workforce Studies discusses the new guide for implementing hotspotting. Hear how the tool was developed, and download the guide at www.aamc.org/hotspotter
Carrie Byington, MD, is Vice-dean for Academic Affairs and Faculty Development at the University of Utah School of Medicine and is concerned about stereotypes that mischaracterize the role of women...
Health care as an industry has found itself at a pivotal "moment of truth" and leaders in academic medicine must step up to the plate to help find solutions during...
What kind of change is coming to health care? Will AMC's close in the coming years? In the face of constrained payments, how will different models thrive? Mike Magill, MD...
Jennifer Salopek is Managing Editor of Wing of Zock, a venue for people in academic medicine to share stories and to help academic medical centers (AMCs) prepare for health care...
Ajay Major is a self-described "medical student activist" and founder/co-Editor in Chief of in-Training.org. In this conversation, Ajay shares how he found his activist side, his goals for in-Training, and...
We all read the Wing of Zock blog but do you know the behind the scenes story? Founder Joanne Conroy, M.D., discusses what it takes to have a successful blog...
When Vivian Lee needed to find innovative tactics for how to reduce costs in the health care system, she looked to an air bag manufacturing plant for inspiration.
How do we prepare Boomers to teach Millennials? Hint: the teacher isn't teaching if the learner isn't learning. Reaching the next generation of medical students: an interview with Kirtly Parker...
What's a great way to capture the idealism of medical students? Hotspotting. Find out how students are helping the country's most at risk patients. An interview with Clese Erikson with...
What is the "change imperative?" What are the most vexing problems facing academic medicine? Why MOOCs (massive open online courses) aren't threats, they're opportunities. Vivian Lee, M.D., Ph.D., M.B.A, senior...
Simply reducing health care costs in the United States isn't enough, says health care consultant James Orlikoff. The country must reverse its rate of health care cost growth - or...
Prenatal care is governed by medical dogma. Mothers first check in with their doctors around eight weeks’ gestation, setting in motion a regimented schedule of clinic visits and tests -...
President Obama's health care reform simply won't work, said Arnold Relman, M.D. , former editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine and professor emeritus of medicine and social medicine...
Imagine a health care system with zero falls, no medication errors and not a single death from a hospital-acquired infection. Upholding health care's "do no harm" oath isn't easy in...
Drawing pictures. As simplistic and unscientific as it sounds, pictures have been one of the most powerful tools scientists have used to help them understand and explain the unknown. Today...
Imagine what college tuition would look like if higher education charged on a fee-for-service model, suggested Harvard Business School luminary Clayton Christensen. Education would be broken down into specific services...
