Health Systems Science leader shares value of system-focused curricula
Jed Gonzalo, MD, MSc, Associate Dean for Health Systems Education at Penn State College of Medicine, recently co-authored an opinion piece for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s Patient Safety Network.
Gonzalo worked with co-author Mamta K. Singh, MD, MSc, Assistant Dean for Health Systems Science at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, to write “Building Systems Citizenship in Health Professions Education: The Continued Call for Health Systems Science Curricula.” In it, they note that “improving patient safety, achieving better clinical outcomes and effectively redesigning systems of care require both educational and cultural transformation.”
Such education, they point out, “involves a shift in how all health care providers think and view their role—one that necessitates learning from and with team members, approaching everyday care by seeing the work through a systems thinking lens, and taking a proactive approach to system errors.”
See Drs. Gonzalo and Singh’s article here.
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