Health Affairs August 30, 2024
In Progress Notes: One Year in the Future of Medicine, author Abraham M. Nussbaum shares personal stories of students participating in a Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship (LIC), a medical school educational reform that aims to train physicians to see patients as fellow community members, at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. In an LIC, students are paired with faculty mentors in different specialties, following them over an entire year rather than a shorter period of weeks or months. Within each specialty, students also recruit and follow their own patient panel across care settings. For example, a student may recruit a patient to their panel during family medicine clinic and then care for that patient during a hospitalization, post-acute care stay,...