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How Clinician-Leaders Can Build Quality Improvement, Safety and Informatics Skills to Increase Value for Patients
Since a 1999 report from the Institute of Medicine highlighted issues in health care safety, there has been a greater focus on improving quality and value. Clinicians are now essential in driving change, requiring skills in informatics and improvement methods while keeping the patient experience at the center.
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Psychological Safety and Accountability - The Secret Sauce of Health Professions Education
MedEdPearls February 2020: How might you apply Dr. Amy Edmondson’s strategies for fostering psychological safety to create a more inclusive and effective learning environment in medical education?
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Leadership Development for the Health Professions
The Harvard Macy Institute Podcast Season 1, Episode 2 features Cathy Green and Grant Phelps.
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Teaching Clinical Reasoning: How early is too early?
In this Harvard Macy Institute blog post, Andrew S. Parsons discusses recent evidence that clinical reasoning can be effectively taught in the pre-clerkship.
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The Need for Clinicians to Strengthen Health Care Research Skills
Clinicians must enhance their understanding of research design, epidemiology, and biostatistics to critically evaluate studies and design impactful projects that improve patient care. Developing these skills enables them to collaborate effectively, interpret evidence rigorously, and apply findings meaningfully in clinical settings, ultimately advancing both their careers and health care outcomes.
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Fewer Hospital Readmissions? Challenging Pay-for-Performance
J. Michael McWilliams, MD, PhD, the Warren Alpert Foundation Professor of Health Care Policy at the Blavatnik Institute at Harvard Medical School and an internist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, discusses hospital readmissions and pay-for-performance measures.
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About Learner Feedback: The Gift No One Likes to Give but Really Should
MedEdPearls January 2020: This MedEdPearls highlights the SPIKES protocol as a tool for learner feedback.
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Engaging Physicians to Lead Change in Health Care
Physician engagement is essential for improving health care, as it drives quality, inspires teams, and addresses challenges like burnout and systemic change. Building trust, collaboration, and leadership opportunities empowers physicians to lead meaningful transformation.
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Virtual Communities of Practice in Health Professions Education
How health care professionals find "their people" online for professional development and educational scholarship is explored in this Harvard Macy Institute blog post.
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Emerging Solutions for Administrative Burden and Provider Burnout
David Y. Ting, chief medical information officer of the Massachusetts General Physicians Organization in Boston and co-director of the MGH Center for Innovation in Digital HealthCare, discusses technologies aimed at easing administrative burden and provider burnout.
