Teaching Health Policy to Residents—Three-Year Experience with a Multi-Specialty Curriculum

Practice Management and Health Policy Education in Radiology: An Emerging Imperative

“…Although some nonradiology specialty publications have recently advocated increased teaching and training in these areas, most specialties, radiology among them [3], have yet to develop uniform structured programs [15][16][17]. Medverd et al [3] recently surveyed the state of radiology business education and healthy policy curricula in the United States and found that, despite the perception that such programs have a high level of importance, their quality varies considerably.…”

Identifying and Eliminating Deficiencies in the General Surgery Resident Core Competency Curriculum

“…We developed our curriculum following compelling recommendations of a group of resident authors, who suggested that health care policy education may best be integrated into overall surgical resident education. [11][12][13] The integration would alleviate the need for prolonging residency training or for obtaining an additional degree. This approach would also allow all of the residents to benefit from the information shared, not just residents who would have been willing to add time to their training.…”

From the Editors' Desk: Renewing the Call for Innovations in Medical Education

“…In the former case, authors should explain how their innovation could be adapted to other settings. 6 In all cases, authors should describe the solution and its implementation in detail sufficient to enable emulation. We encourage authors to report problems encountered with implementation (and their resolution) as well as successes.…”