A Copernican Revolution in Graduate Medical Education: Putting Patients’ Health Care Needs at the Center of GME Discussions
Product type: presentation at The Robert Graham Center Primary Care Forum: Senate Staffer Briefing. Washington DC. March 20, 2019.
Presenters: Erin Fraher, PhD
Overview:
- Foment a Copernican Revolution: Reframe GME policy to put patients at center, not physicians
- Align GME Funding with Population Health Needs
- Address rural population’s “essential health care services”
- Promote generalist training and practice
- Encourage broad scope of practice and team based care
- Embrace our roles as “data agitators”
- Use data to drive GME investments and accountability
- Learn from state “policy laboratories”