Here are five insights:
1. The newly released textbook, Health Systems Science, is intended to teach medical students how to deliver care in the new value-based healthcare world.
2. The association collaborated with the 11 founding “Accelerating Change in Medical Education” Consortium schools to write the textbook with an emphasis on value, patient safety, quality improvement, teamwork and team science, leadership, clinical informatics, population health, socio-ecological determinants of health, healthcare policy and healthcare economics.
3. The AMA worked with its 32-school Consortium to envision the medical school of the future. The textbook is intended to be used as the third pillar alongside the other two pillars of basic and clinical sciences.
4. Penn State College of Medicine in Hershey, and Brown University’s Warren Alpert Medical School in Providence, R.I., plan to integrate the textbook into their curriculum soon.
5. All medical schools will be able access the textbook in mid-December 2016.
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