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NEWS
FROM CAMBRIDGE HEALTH ALLIANCE
February
22, 2007
NEW ARTICLE ALERT: MEDICAL EDUCATION REFORM
In today's issue (Dated: February 22, 2007) of the New England
Journal of Medicine, an article in the Sounding Board section offers
cutting-edge insights on medical education reform featuring Cambridge
Health Alliance (CHA) physicians, David A. Hirsh, MD, Instructor
in Medicine, Harvard Medical School (HMS), and Barbara Ogur, MD,
Assistant Professor of Medicine, HMS, first and second authors respectively.
Hirsh and Ogur rolled out the new HMS
Integrated Clerkship program in July of 2004 which they continue
to co-direct at CHA. The Integrated Clerkship model is a complete
redesign of the principal clinical year in which students, in lieu
of the monthly rotations of traditional clerkships, spend a year
in a fully integrated program at CHA. In this method, which is being
followed in several schools in the U.S. and Canada, students benefit
from continuity of the care of their own patient panel, the continuity
of relationships with experienced faculty mentors, and the opportunity
to become familiar with and contribute to the healthcare delivery
of one hospital system.
The program, developed by Hirsh and Ogur, was one of the first
pilot projects in the ongoing Medical Education Reform Initiative
at HMS. Drawing from their groundbreaking experiences in the Integrated
Clerkship, a new model for clinical education, Hirsh and Ogur, together
with HMS Professors, George E. Thibault, MD, the Daniel D. Federman,
M.D. Professor of Medicine and Medical Education, and Malcolm Cox,
MD, the Carl W. Walter Distinguished Professor of Medicine, put
forth: "Continuity" as an Organizing Principle for Clinical
Education Reform.
Authors: David A. Hirsh, MD, Barbara Ogur, MD, George E.
Thibault, MD, and Malcolm Cox, MD
Cambridge
Health Alliance is a regional healthcare system with three hospitals
and more than twenty primary care practices in Cambridge, Somerville,
and Boston's metro-North communities. As a teaching affiliate of
Harvard Medical School, Cambridge Health Alliance offers medical
residency/training programs and undergraduate learning experiences
in hospital and community settings. Cambridge Health Alliance also
includes the Cambridge Public Health Department, CHA Physicians
Organization (CHAPO), and Network Health, a managed Medicaid plan.
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