Using social media to teach, learn and engage in medicine

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 Health Sciences about social media in medicine as a tool for engaging with colleagues, students and patients. Follow them both on Twitter at @MedPedsDoctor and @dsjutah and download the Twitter 101 guide for physicians at goo.gl/9WRee7.... Read More

Patient satisfaction, physician engagement and other CMO headaches

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 Hospital, talk about physician ratings, transparency, and engaging physician staff in patient satisfaction and public visibility.... Read More

Defining diversity beyond race: A discussion of diversity in medical education

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. Sidra believes that medicine can - and should - take a leading role in promoting diversity and expanding the definition of diversity in healthcare. Broadening our definition, Sidra says, will increase trust in the healthcare system, improve patient care, and potentially reduce waste and errors. ... Read More

Improving diversity in medicine

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 ensure the biomedical workforce becomes more diverse. ... Read More

Maximizing Value: Are you ready for bundled payments?

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 possible payment models like bundled payments. AAMC partnered with BMJ to capture data from 10 academic health centers and develop tools to help hospitals make the transition. The toolbox includes a readiness assessment and e-learning modules. Helen and Dennis discuss how the effort to prepare for bundled payments can be a catalyst for overall cost control and quality improvement across the health system. ... Read More

Medical Student Debt: Have We Reached the Tipping Point?

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, discusses a unique approach Ohio is taking to help student's deal with soaring costs.... Read More

AAMC 2013: Care by Design

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 care into a comprehensive system for treating patients. ... Read More

What Every Medical Student Fears

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 student Marissa Weber weighs in.... Read More

Population Health is Precision Medicine for Neighborhoods

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 a long time. When the Association of American Medical Centers (AAMC) met this week in Philadelphia to discuss health care reform, two primary care advocates took the stage to discuss the challenges Academic Medical Centers (AMC's) face in delivering population health.... Read More

Carve out time for scholarship by thinking creatively

Why is making time for scholarship in academic medicine so hard to achieve... Read More

Translating vision into action

Transforming academic medicine is a complex task, it requires that we rethink the entire structure - governance, money flows, teams vs. individuals, the list is long. Perhaps the biggest challenge, however, is how to take the leadership vision and engaging the entire institution in acting on the vision.... Read More

Navigating Through Change

Just as a ship's captain needs to prepare her ship and crew for any possible weather, leaders in academic medicine needs to prepare our organizations for an uncertain future.... Read More

The unique role of academic medicine

Vivian Lee, MD, PhD, MBA, emphasizes that while much is in flux in academic medicine, the role of scientists and educators remains core to our future success.... Read More

Student Perspective: What Makes a Great Medical Education

What is the best way to deliver a lecture? What experiences do students remember the most? How can students contribute in a meaningful way? Hear perspectives from Jeffrey Zabinski, 3rd year medical student from Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio.... Read More

Patient Engagement

Patients must be involved in their own care to improve quality and control costs, but we need their voice in how we run our business. Their experience will drive how we deliver care more efficiently and effectively.... Read More

Advocacy for Academic Medicine

How can leaders in academic medicine engage in advocacy to help shape the policy that affects our institutions? Atul Grover, Chief Public Policy Officer for AAMC, and Liz Winter, Chief of Staff, University of Utah Health Sciences engage in discussion of the public policy threats and opportunities that have created "the change imperative". ... Read More

Population Health: A New Way of Seeing Things

The idea of viewing population health through the lens of a hospital isn't accurate anymore. There are many resources to bear when you consider keeping populations healthy. ... Read More

The Virtuous Cycle

The delivery system is influencing education, and educating is improving the delivery system. Education, scholarship and service all work together in the virtuous cycle.... Read More

Magic Medical Moments: Being Patient-centric in a Changing Health Care Environment

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.... Read More

Breaking down silos

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, Chike Nzerue, Chief Medical Officer of Nashville General Hospital, and Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs at Meharry Medical College and Dean Li, Chief Scientific Officer and Vice Dean of Research, University of Utah Health Sciences discuss the challenges and opportunities of integration, how to find synergy, and what we can learn from unexpected places.... Read More