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Recommended Reading: March 9-15
Catch up on the latest articles on medical professionalism, courtesy of this week’s Recommended Reading: The authors of Ethical Physician Incentives — From Carrots and Sticks to Shared Purpose argue that a healthcare organization’s incentive schemes should align with the goals articulated in the Physician Charter. In a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation blog post, Drs. [...]
Recommended Reading: March 2 – 8
Check out the latest Choosing Wisely® articles in this week’s Recommended Reading: A Scientific American article noted the importance of Choosing Wisely’s emphasis on promoting conversations between physicians and patients. They note that the “dialogue is most successful, though, when consumers understand before they get sick that screening and treatment can cause harm.” In The [...]
Recommended Reading: February 22 – March 1
This week’s Recommended Reading features the latest articles on wise use of health care resources: The New York Times Well blog covered last week’s Choosing Wisely®press conference announcing the release of 90 more tests and procedures that physicians and patients should question. Jon Tilburt and ABIM/ABIM Foundation President & CEO Christine Cassel explain “Why the [...]
Recommended Reading: February 16 – 22
This week’s Recommended Reading spotlights the release of a new round of Choosing Wisely® lists. This week, seventeen medical specialty societies each unveiled new lists of five medical tests, procedures or therapies which are commonly used but may not always be necessary: Choosing Wisely partner Consumer Reports featured the campaign in a recent blog post, [...]
Recommended Reading: February 9 – 15
This week’s Recommended Reading includes new articles by ABIM staff and Foundation Trustees, along with a study of common professionalism “dilemmas”: In the latest issue of Health Affairs, ABIM staff members Elizabeth Bernabeo and Eric Holmboe outline the competencies needed by patients, providers, and systems to achieve patient-centered care. Also in Health Affairs, ABIM Foundation [...]
Recommended Reading: February 2 – 8
Learn about efforts to incorporate cost-consciousness into medical education and training in the latest Recommended Reading: In “The Value in the Evidence: Teaching Residents to ‘Choose Wisely.’” Christopher Moriates and colleagues describe a curriculum created by University of California, San Francisco residents to cultivate cost-consciousness and wise use of medical resources. Putting the Charter into [...]
Recommended Reading: January 25 – February 1
Check out the latest articles on professionalism in medical schools and unnecessary care in this week’s Recommended Reading: In “Creating a Longitudinal Environment of Awareness: Teaching Professionalism Outside the Anatomy Laboratory,” a fourth-year medical student reflects on the opportunities to teach professionalism in basic science courses in medical school. He argues that while educators have [...]
Recommended Reading: January 18 – 25
The newest Recommended Reading post is a round-up of the latest Choosing Wisely® mentions: In “Doing Better by Doing Less: Approaches to Tackle Overuse of Services,” Robert Berenson and Elizabeth Docteur provide an overview of approaches to address unnecessary tests and procedures — including recommendations in the Choosing Wisely campaign — and offer suggestions for further [...]
Recommended Reading: January 11 – 18
The articles featured in this week’s Recommended Reading focus on identifying and addressing unprofessional behavior among physicians: Researchers recently presented vignettes of unprofessional online behavior to state medical boards to assess the likelihood that these behaviors would result in a state board investigation. Four of the vignettes had a high rate of consensus that the [...]
Recommended Reading: January 4 – 11
The first Recommended Reading of 2013 features the latest articles addressing the problems of waste and overuse: In an Archives of Internal Medicine editorial, the authors assert that “there is much work to be done to overcome the bias toward overtreatment.” They cite the Choosing Wisely® campaign as an important step in reducing unnecessary tests [...]
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