Introduction to Health Systems Science: Experiential Learning Through Patient Interviews in the Emergency Department.

ABSTRACT: Increased complexity in health care delivery is now a problem of national proportions. Traditional medical education fails to sufficiently prepare students for the realities of practicing medicine in the 21st century. To address this critical problem, health systems science (HSS), which focuses on the broader system of care, has emerged as the "third pillar" of undergraduate medical education complementing the basic and clinical sciences. The authors identified a need to increase the amount and quality of HSS education in a way that would engage students and provide a platform to learn how patients interact with the health care system. UNITED (Understanding Needs in the Emergency Department) was thus designed and implemented to introduce preclinical medical students to HSS through patient

SUBMITTER: Sawyer NT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8052993 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature