The Medical Professionalism Blog

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 Practice (PCIP) grantee Neel Shah describes his ABIM Foundation-funded Teaching Value Project in an AMA Virtual Mentor piece.  This project consists of online modules designed to teach medical students to be good stewards of resources.
• In “Can Physician Training and Fiscal Responsibility Coexist?”, the authors offer recommendations for incorporating stewardship of resources into medical education and training. Their recommendations include:
  • Utilizing more hospitalists;
  • Teaching residents how to manage patient discharges; and
  • Shifting more residency training to the outpatient setting so that residents better understand the transitions needed from inpatient to outpatient care.