Hala Durrah's 11-year-old daughter has survived two liver transplants and a bout with lymphoma. Managing her medical affairs was all-consuming for Durrah, who, as a patient advocate at Anne Arundel...
Patient-centered care isn't about looking good on consumer scorecards. It's a mindset, an organizing principle and a means to a greater end: high-value health care, says Tom Lee, Chief Medical...
A system that's sick. That's what Bob S. Kaplan, Ph.D., the world's leading authority on strategic performance measurement, sees when he looks at the U.S. health care system. We spend...
What would motivate employees to make their organization more efficient? Intuitively, employees could view Lean projects as threats to their own employment and professional growth. So how does any health...
Bias has no home in medical research. But as relationships between multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical companies and academic medical centers become dangerously intertwined, bias is now unavoidable.
Spring means tulips and conferences. And joining social media can be a terrific way to interact with other conference-goers or see what's happening at a conference across the country without...
As a middle class taxpayer, Liana Orsolini Ph.D, R.N., wants health care that's safe, effective, affordable, and accessible to everyone. Impossible? Orsolini doesn't think so. As a consultant for Clinical...
Boston University anesthesiologist Rafael Ortega, M.D., believes that creating digital content means much more than just posting a pdf of a textbook online. True multimedia content is designed to be...
Attention students: librarians want you to know that libraries still exist and have value. In fact, a student and librarian partnership could results in better outcomes. Jean Shipman, director of...
David P. Sklar, M.D., is editor-in-chief of Academic Medicine. Listen as he explains the role of an academic journal in health care transformation and shares insights on how writers and...
Rohaid Ali, undergraduate student at University of Pennsylvania and Rhodes Scholar finalist, discusses how incorporating iPads has impacted medical education at Perelman. He also discusses their value for students and...
Listen in as Cynthia Manley of Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Dennis Jolley of University of Utah Health Care have a conversation about the increasingly important role of social media...
Most medical schools are seen as ivory towers filled with intellects that have little in common with average people. In this era of change, it's not the image most Universities...
For almost 90 year- and through four name changes - Academic Medicine has been a forum of information and exchange for administrators and faculty of academic medical centers in the...
Chris Frymoyer, a second year medical student at Jefferson Medical College, talks about how an appreciation of the arts can expand thinking and develop better observation skills in physicians. Chris...
Alex Djuricich, M.D., is associate dean for Continuing Medical Education & Med-Peds residency program director at Indiana University. In this conversation, he chats with Dennis Jolley from University of Utah...
What do CMOs talk about when they get together? Listen in as Russell Howerton, M.D., CMO at Wake Forest Baptist Health, and Thomas Miller, M.D., CMO at University of Utah...
Dean Y. Li, M.D., chief scientific officer and vice dean of research at University of Utah Health Sciences interviews Sidra Qureshi, a fourth-year medical student at Texas A&M Medical Center...
New mentoring network connects peers across the country to brainstorm plans for better inclusion in the biomedical workforce. The Clinical and Translational Science National Research Mentoring Network is working to...
Helen Morant, clinical education specialist, BMJ North America, joins Dennis Jolley from University of Utah Health Sciences to discuss the new AAMC initiative "Maximizing Value." Health systems are looking at...
It's an issue every medical school is grappling with: how to keep tuition costs under control. Gary Leroy, associate dean of student affairs at Wright State University's Boonshoft Medical School...
University of Utah Health Care's Community Clinics are receiving national attention for developing "Care By Design," one of the first models in the country to integrate acute, chronic, and preventive...
Can you teach empathy? How much time should med students spend in the classroom vs. hands-on learning? Why does every med student fear the match? Second year Jefferson Medical College...
For decades we have been facing a health care crisis. Payment imbalances, lagging educational reform, physician shortages, you name it, the health care landscape has been ignoring the inevitable for...
