Design and implementation of a health systems science curriculum at a large teaching hospital.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Physicians must increasingly lead change for improvement in the value of health care for individuals and populations. Leadership, stewardship, and population health competencies are not explicitly part of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) requirements and are best appreciated in the context of Health Systems Science (HSS). HSS education is best approached at the institutional level, yet almost all graduate medical education (GME) curriculum is at the program level. We describe the process of designing and implementing an institutional HSS GME curriculum in a hospital-based sponsoring institution.

Methods

A group of diverse stakeholders drafted a curriculum to build competencies in leadership, stewardship, and population health, which

SUBMITTER: Harcher E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9404630 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature