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9th Annual Meeting
July 14-19,
2005
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Abstract Category: Curriculum |
Poster ID: C14 |
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TEACHING HEALTH POLICY IN A MEDICAL SCHOOL CURRICULUM *Mary Pat Wohlford-Wessels, PhD., Des Moines University, Des Moines Iowa, 50312. This presentation is designed to provide an overview of a health policy
course that was designed to support medical students as they move into
their third and fourth years of training and beyond. The course was
designed to provide students with an overview of the U.S. health care
system, to include content related to: reimbursement for health services,
the organization of the health care delivery system, access to health
services, public health issues, managed care and quality, the impact and
importance of evidence based medicine, the health professionals that
support physicians in practice, supply and demand issues related to
physicians, specialty (physician) distribution, population based medicine,
community health assessment and the physician’s role.
Formal and informal financial and political relationships between
and among system sectors is included.
This course introduces students to valuable web sites that will
serve them as they move through residency training into practice.
An introduction to organizations, institutions and associations
that represent the health care sector and support physician practice will
be included. The goals of the course are to: provide medical students with
a framework for understanding the health care delivery system; provide a
perspective related to the physician’s role and place within the system;
prepare students to begin developing health policy opinions that are
grounded in the literature and provide students with resources related to
the practice of medicine from a health policy perspective.
The presentation will include an orientation to the syllabus,
measurable objectives, assessment processes, and student outcomes.
The presentation will also focus on how an extensive use of web
references is presented to students for current and future use.
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