MedPage Today October 4, 2019
David Nash, MD, MBA, FACP

-Medical schools and hospitals must get on board with population health

In marking the 40th anniversary of “The House of God,” my last column evoked memories of medical internships in the 1980s and prompted some of us to take stock of how graduate medical education has evolved over time.

This month seems like a good time to consider whether today’s medical school curricula and graduate training programs adequately prepare new physicians for practicing medicine in a healthcare system that rewards value-based care and promotes population health – a concept that requires us to focus on health outcomes for a group of individuals rather than on single encounters with individual patients.

In 2010, population health was operationalized on a nationwide...

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