More medical schools are teaching students to ask patients lifestyle questions to tackle chronic conditions such as heart disease, stroke and diabetes via WSJ
of the nation’s $4.1 trillion in healthcare costs. And while the U.S. healthcare system has traditionally paid doctors to treat disease rather than prevent it, the opportunity to reduce costs is spurring new reimbursement models from Medicare, private insurers and employer health plans that offer clinicians incentives to prevent disease.
Changes in medical education may face significant hurdles. Undergraduate medical programs are of necessity already jam-packed with the basic building blocks of biomedical science, organ systems, pharmacology, anatomy, immunology and other requirements students must master to pass licensing exams. But the Covid-19 pandemic and social-justice movement have put medical education at an “inflection point,” says Catherine R. Lucey, executive vice chancellor and provost of the University of California San Francisco, and co-author of a proposed 10-year plan to transform medical education published last year in the journal Academic Medicine.
Michelle Troup, a second-year medical student at Greenville, recently completed her dermatology, musculoskeletal and rheumatology exam. In addition to basic science and diagnostic material, it covered such issues as how to counsel patients about the role of core strength and physical therapy in treating back pain and the importance of strength training for women concerned about bone loss.
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