The Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic School of Medicine is one of 11 medical schools belonging to the AMA’s Accelerating Change in Medical Education initiative, which formed in 2013. The initiative aims to facilitate collaboration between medical school officials to develop innovative curriculum models to teach medical students about the importance of high-value care.
While students at the clinic’s Rochester, Minn.-based campus were among the first in the nation to study high-value care, the inaugural class of students at the clinic’s Scottsdale, Ariz., medical campus will soon be able to participate in the school’s Science of Health Care Delivery curriculum, developed through the Accelerating Change in Medical Education initiative.
In addition to developing the healthcare delivery curriculum, the Mayo Clinic also collaborated with the AMA on a textbook to help physicians navigate the changing field as the industry transitions to value-based care. The textbook, Health System Science, was released last fall and is currently used at medical schools across the country.
“Transforming medical education in our country is critical if we want future patients to receive the highest value and quality of care,” says Michele Halyard, MD, interim dean of the Mayo Clinic School of Medicine’s Phoenix and Scottsdale campuses. “Our work with the AMA Consortium brings the brightest minds together from medical schools around the country to build innovative solutions that can then be disseminated broadly to change medical education for the better.”
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