Teaching Costs of Care: Opening Pandora’s Box
Dr. Arora is an associate professor of medicine and Assistant Dean for Scholarship and Discovery at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine Last week, I tried something new with our residents…we tried to talk about why physicians overuse tests. This is the topic of the moment, as the American College of Physicians (ACP) just dropped their long-awaited new High Value Cost Conscious Curriculum for what has now been dubbed the “7th competency” for physicians-in-training. In addition to the ACP curriculum, which I served as one of the reviewers for, I also am involved with...
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By Dr. Vineet Arora (Twitter: @FutureDocs) What Happens in Vegas Can Be Used to Teach Costs of Care Funded with a grant from the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation, Costs of Care has partnered with medical educators at Harvard Medical School and the University of Chicago (that would be us!) to start addressing this problem. We are developing a series of web-based medical education videos that use clinical vignettes to illustrate core principles of cost-consideration, including how to communicate with patients about avoiding unnecessary care and reducing overused or misused tests...
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