Payers and providers are fast adopting new ways of paying for care and shedding fee-for-service constraints to doing what they’ve long known to be in the best interest of patients...
What if you asked faculty to embrace dramatic change but didn't offer any training? As care providers, we take care of patients but didn't have a good system in place...
Our success hinges on our ability to embrace change, says Darrell Kirch, M.D., president and CEO of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). What will move us into the...
Love to share your work but struggling to find the time? Darshana Shah is the associate dean of faculty affairs and professional development at Marshall University. She describes a unique...
Laura Palmer is a third year medical student at Texas Tech University. While she's all for change, she cautions about what can happen when the pace of that change may...
At Johns Hopkins, there is a focus on faculty. Joseph Cofrancesco Jr., Associate Professor of Medicine and director at the Johns Hopkins Institute for Excellence in Education, describes a unique...
Michael Barone is a pediatrician with Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and an associate dean of faculty development and he says support for teachers was lacking at his institution. So...
Richard Levin says technology has transformed medicine, but the focus on technology and the value equation has caused us to lose the human touch. Can we use technology and still...
Doctors give advice, but sometimes the smartest way to improve the health of a community isn't prescriptive, it's more about listening. Aaron Byzak with University of California San Diego Health...
They're expected to spend their lives taking care of patients but who's making sure they're ok? Brianna Lide is a third year medical student at Texas A&M who says med...
Is it enough to simply recruit a diverse student body? Aisha Omorodion is a third year medical student at Albany Medical College who says too many schools are just trying...
Guess what was the most popular message in President Obama's State of the Union address? If you guessed, "announcement of his precision medicine initiative," you might be crazy. And you'd...
Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson recalls the Orangeburg massacre, his childhood and the end of “Jim Crow” era of government-sanctioned oppression to illustrate how far the country has come in...
University of Utah pediatrician and Associate Vice President of Academic Affairs Carrie Byington, M.D. reflects on her career path and the obstacles she overcame as a Mexican-American woman growing up...
Women make most family health decisions and largely dictate how the country's health dollars are spent. But they have decidedly less influence in how major health organizations are run. Why...
“Undergraduates rarely are exposed to clinical research, and that’s threatening our pipeline for clinical investigators,” says pediatrician Carrie Byington, M.D., co-principal investigator of the Utah Center for Clinical and Translational...
Why some small Utah providers took the risk of participating in Medicare pilot payment models: Because it is the wave of the future and they are committed to success.
Doctors and researchers frown on the false logic of anecdotes—the "N of 1" stories that spread like a virus to undermine science and sound reasoning. But is there a place...
Astrophysicist, biologist, computer scientist, genetic virologist, glaciologist, molecular animator—what do you imagine when you hear these words? “What do you see when you picture a scientist?” asks TED writer Karen...
It’s true. There are countless reasons to feel overwhelmed and disheartened with the current state of health care. So many external factors are swirling around at once. The path of...
What are the game-changing algorithms in health care? No ranking is perfect. Ours is bound to stir dissent. But don’t let us be the judge. What’s in your top 10?
Carla Thorne became a foster Mom not intending to adopt children but “to give some parents a chance to get right with their lives.” Similarly, University of Utah pediatrics professor...
