WIHI - A Podcast from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement

Date: September 23, 2010 Featuring: Lawrence Smith, MD, Dean, Hofstra/North Shore-Long Island Jewish School of Medicine; Chief Medical Officer, North Shore-LIJ Health System John Rock, MD, Founding Dean, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine at Florida International University M. Brownell Anderson, Senior Director, Educational Affairs, Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) It’s not easy to turn medical training upside down to better fit the needs of today’s patients and health care system. Consider that the last major reform occurred some 100 years ago and many, many institutions and individuals would say they’ve done just fine with the basics and, besides, some of the new content areas like “humanism” would be nice to know, but they’re hardly essential. I’m going to be a surgeon, after all! Well, don’t try that out on the Deans of some 20 new medical schools. The attitude also might not wash with a new breed of curriculum architects who pair students with patients in low-income neighborhoods