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The Next Wave of Reform for Medical Education

Wednesday, March 31, 2010
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Eastern Time

Featuring:

Donald M. Berwick, MD, President and CEO, Institute for Healthcare Improvement

Lucian L. Leape, MD, Chair, Lucian Leape Institute at NPSF, and Adjunct Professor of Health Policy, Harvard School of Public Health

Dennis S. O’Leary, MD, President Emeritus, The Joint Commission

Diane C. Pinakiewicz, President, Lucian Leape Institute at NPSF

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What do today’s medical students need to know to safely and effectively take care of patients? This question isn’t really a new one. But in recent years, the focus on making sure students are prepared to practice in an environment dominated by advancements in medical treatment has been coupled with something equally urgent: the need for newly minted MDs to listen effectively, to engage in difficult conversations, to work as members of teams, and to practice with sharpened awareness and skills drawn from the very latest in improvement science and patient safety.

None of these changes can come about overnight. IHI’s “virtual” Open School is starting to make a difference in the lives and skills of students across the health professions, and now the Lucian Leape Institute at the National Patient Safety Foundation has issued a groundbreaking report that lays out an important blueprint for change. Unmet Needs: Teaching Physicians to Provide Safe Patient Care may be the most important call for medical education reform since the Flexner Report in 1910. The principal authors of the report join Don Berwick and WIHI host, Madge Kaplan, for an important discussion of the key findings and recommendations in the report and a look at where reform of the sort called for can already be noted and applied more broadly.

Dennis O’Leary labels the current state of medical education as one of “producing square pegs for the delivery system’s round holes.” This is clearly not the future we want to embrace. Please join WIHI on March 31 for a timely conversation on one of the most important gateways to a better and safer health care system: medical education.

There is no fee for participating in a WIHI program, but enrollment is required.

Welcome to WIHI

How to Join

WIHI is an exciting new "talk show" program from IHI, connecting you to the cutting edge of health care improvement. It’s free, it’s timely, and it’s designed to help dedicated legions of health care improvers worldwide keep up with some of the freshest and most robust thinking and strategies for improving patient care.

Every other week, IHI will bring you a 60-minute show free of charge, that will help health care improvers worldwide stay on top of the latest thinking and strategies for improving patient care. You can tune in “live” through your computer or telephone, or listen to recordings of the broadcast later at your convenience. Your host, IHI’s Madge Kaplan, has years of experience as a health care reporter for public radio, but may be best known as “the voice” of the 100,000 Lives and 5 Million Lives Campaign conference calls. Please join us!

WIHI programs use WebEx technology. There are three ways to join:

Via computer alone. You can access the audio through your computer speakers or headphones and can submit comments or questions via the chat function in WebEx.
Via telephone alone. You can participate in the audio aspects of the program, but will not have access to chat functions.
Via computer AND telephone. You can participate in the audio aspects of the program and the chat functions as well.