Integrating High-Value Cost-Conscious Care into an Existing Medical School Curriculum.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

High-value cost-conscious care (HVCCC) education has been shown to reduce wasteful health care spending. Incorporating HVCCC into a medical school curriculum can be challenging due to limited curricular time. We explored the feasibility of medical students creating HVCCC peer education within existing platforms at a single urban academic medical school. We reasoned that curricular changes could improve student knowledge, attitudes, and competency with HVCCC within 2 hours and 25 minutes of curricular time.

Methods

First-year medical student attitudes and understanding regarding HVCCC were evaluated via a survey before and after the delivery of a mixed asynchronous and in-person HVCCC curriculum created by two medical student peers. The curricula comprised three

SUBMITTER: Eapen S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11772531 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature