Redesigning Education to Accelerate Change in Healthcare
Redesigning Education to Accelerate Change in Healthcare (REACH) is an American Medical Association (AMA) grant-funded initiative to transform the Brody Medical School curriculum so that it better prepares future physicians in patient safety, quality improvement and population health in an environment of team-based, patient-centered care. The grant addresses the substantial gap that now exists between what physicians have been taught in the past and what they will need to know now and in the future to provide safer, higher quality patient care.
News and Happenings
AMA announces effort to train future doctors on health systems science
CHICAGO — Furthering its work to ensure future physicians are well-equipped to deliver care to patients within modern health systems, the American Medical Association (AMA) today announced a new effort aimed at training more future physicians in Health Systems Science.
ECU’s Brody School of Medicine Receives National Curriculum Innovation Grant
The Brody School of Medicine has been selected to receive a new curriculum innovation grant from the American Medical Association (AMA) to transform approaches to learning and competency-based medical education.
Teachers of Quality: ECU’s innovative approach to improving quality in health care delivery begins fourth iteration
The Brody School of Medicine’s innovative Teachers of Quality Academy (TQA) – which trains healthcare professionals to improve quality in health care delivery – recently welcomed its fourth cohort.
$370,000 in AMA grants will help drive rigorous med ed innovations
Fifteen medical schools and institutions are getting grant funding from the AMA to advance innovative ideas that will transform education in areas such as curriculum, faculty development, coaching, systems approaches to learning, and competency-based medical education.
2019 Quality Improvement Symposium Award Winning Presentations
The Third Annual Unified Quality Improvement Symposium was held on Feb. 6 at the East Carolina Heart Institute at East Carolina University. The Symposium showcased 39 projects related to quality improvement, patient safety, population health and interprofessional practice from ECU and Vidant Health.
With more than 180 people in attendance, the symposium provided health sciences faculty, residents, fellows and students, as well as Vidant Health physicians and employees, the opportunity to present their quality improvement work to an audience of peers and health system leaders.
Improving Medical Education:
Important partnership of ECU, other leading medical schools gets extension
A handpicked group of the nation’s leading medical schools – of which ECU’s Brody School of Medicine is a founding member – will have extra time to partner on projects that will shape the future of medical education and health care delivery in the U.S….
Brody was one of only 11 medical schools – including New York University School of Medicine, Mayo Medical School and University of California, San Francisco – to be awarded a five-year, $1 million grant under the AMA program.
Med ed is being transformed. Meet 3 taking it into practice.
When the AMA partnered with a select group of medical schools to form the Accelerating Change in Medical Education Consortium, their goal was to transform the training of future physicians to create a more well-rounded, system-focused generation of doctors.
Five years after that partnership began, the first cohort of those trainees enters residency instilled with that innovative approach to medicine. Three of these trainees-in Chicago to attend a consortium gathering-took the time for a Q&A about their experiences in medical schools that revamped their curricula to better serve patients and physicians.
Pathbreaking effort to reshape medical education starts new phase
The partnership between the AMA and 32 of the country’s leading medical schools aimed at creating physicians equipped to flourish in tomorrow’s health care environment has yielded positive results. And the work of the AMA Accelerating Change in Medical Education Consortium is just beginning.
AMA Marks Milestone in Medical Education As First Students Graduate Under Transformative National Curricula Redesign Initiative
“First medical students who received training under national effort begin to graduate this month, including students from NYU, Indiana University, East Carolina University, Oregon Health and Science University, Penn State.
With five medical schools this year graduating their first classes of students fully trained under a transformative national curricula redesign initiative, the American Medical Association (AMA) is highlighting innovations from recent years that have better trained the next generation of physicians. Launched five years ago, the AMA’s Accelerating Change in Medical Education Consortium includes 32 of the country’s leading medical schools working together to create the medical school of the future.”
Brody School of Medicine Class of 2018 (Photo Credit Jason Mills with ASAP Photo & Camera)
Brody Receives National Praise:
ECU’s Brody School of Medicine praised as ‘inspiration for national program change’
“East Carolina University’s Brody School of Medicine was one of only 11 medical schools nationwide to be awarded a five-year, $1 million grant under the AMA program, which aims to bridge the gap between how future physicians are trained and how health care is delivered.”
Health Systems Science Textbook
Brody faculty celebrate the release of a new textbook to teach the “third pillar” of medical education. The textbook is the first of its kind to define health systems science and provide a framework for its implementation nationwide. Five Brody School of Medicine Faculty and one ECU College of Nursing Faculty member authored four chapters of the textbook with Dr. Luan Lawson serving as both an author and editor. Pictured below from left to right are Dr. Elizabeth Baxley, Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs; Dr. Danielle Walsh, Pediatric Surgery; Dr. Richard Hawkins, American Medical Association vice president for medical education outcomes and editor, Dr. Luan Lawson, Assistant Dean of Curriculum, Assessment and Clinical Academic Affairs; Dr. Donna Lake, Clinical Assistant Professor, and Dr. Niti Armistead, Teachers of Quality Academy 2.0 Program Director, (not pictured, Dr. Jason Higginson, Chair, Department of Pediatrics).
Health Systems Science, published by Elsevier, can purchased from the AMA Store and Elsevier, as well as from Amazon and other online booksellers.
Aiming High: Clinicians, educators learn about boosting quality in health
Twenty-five health sciences professionals and administrators from East Carolina University and Vidant Health gathered for a daylong session recently at Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium’s Club Level to learn about improving quality in health care delivery. And to build paper airplanes.
Purpose
Redesigning Education to Accelerate Change in Healthcare (REACH) is an American Medical Association (AMA) grant-funded initiative to transform the Brody Medical School curriculum so that it better prepares future physicians in patient safety, quality improvement and population health in an environment of team-based, patient-centered care. The grant addresses the substantial gap that now exists between what physicians have been taught in the past and what they will need to know now and in the future to provide safer, higher quality patient care.
REACH Happenings: Patient safety seminar
Join us for a discussion on reliability science as it relates to healthcare with guest Steve Kreiser, CDSR, USN Ret., MBA, MS.
Steve Kreiser is a senior consultant with Healthcare Performance Improvement (HPI). HPI is a consulting firm that specializes in improving human performance in complex systems using evidence-based methods derived from high-risk industries. Steve is a former FA-18 pilot with over 21 years of leadership and management experience in the U.S. Navy.
Brody School of Medicine’s $1 Million Grant
East Carolina University’s Brody School of Medicine is one of 11 schools in the nation selected for a $1 million grant from the American Medical Association to change the way it educates students while keeping its focus on rural and under-served populations.
AMA Reimagining Residency initiative
Following a five-month application and review process, the awardees of the $15 million Reimagining Residency grant program have been named. The grant teams will join the Accelerating Change in Medical Education Consortium of 37 medical schools working to transform medical education across the continuum.