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Integrated care delivery at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

Carol A. Terregino, MD, discusses how Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School focused on health systems science and maximized integrated care delivery.

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Key lessons in health systems science that pre-meds should know

An understanding of the system in which health care is delivered can help pre-meds hit the ground running once they begin medical school.

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Health systems science skills must survive transition to residency

Medical schools are teaching the essential topic, but a study suggests it will take more work to ensure it carries over to graduate medical education.

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Medical students help tackle 3 long-standing health care problems

Today’s medical students are the first to be trained in health systems science, giving rise to fresh ideas to help overcome big challenges.

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Why systems thinking is make or break for medical students’ careers

Learn with the AMA about this linchpin in both modern clinical practice and lifelong learning.

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Medical students: Test your knowledge of health care financing

Learn with the AMA how patients’ lives and physicians’ livelihoods depend largely on a decision made by Congress almost 80 years ago.

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HSS evolution at Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine

Susan Enright, DO, FACOI, discusses the health systems science (HSS) curriculum and its evolution. Learn more.

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As pandemic hit, these medical students acted on systems approach

Learn with the AMA about how medical students’ work in contact tracing and cluster investigation filled an education gap and aided COVID-19 response.

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How medical students use systems thinking to help patients

Systems thinking was an asset for medical students connecting vulnerable patients with needed resources during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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