Symposia

Building a Roadmap for Transformation of Medical Education

Dr. Cascino and Bruce Kelly reviewed the top priorities that emerged from each of the previous sessions and prepared the group for final voting. They asked participants to rank each item according its importance and urgency in allowing health care education to facilitate high-value, patient-centered health care. These results will form the foundation of the group's priorities for education reform.

The highest vote getters on these combined rankings included:

• Require transparency of educational costs across health care disciplines.
• Increase financial incentives for medical students to go into primary care by lowering excessively high administrative costs, forgiving loans and deferring loans during training.
• Stop paying for individual procedures and instead pay for value (better outcomes, safety & service at lower cost).
• Compress and consolidate the curriculum for medical school and other health professions with competency certification replacing years spent in training. Shift funding to increase the training of other health care professionals to assume more of the current responsibilities of physicians.
• Change the evaluation process to measure knowledge, skills and attitude competencies relevant to both individually provided and team-based patient care.

Read a news release on the the symposium.