Medical schools are often criticized for being slow to modify their curricula, but some are starting to teach students to adapt to changes in the U.S. healthcare system, The Wall Street Journal reports.
The American Medical Association has launched a program called Accelerating Change in Medical Education, in which 11 schools are each given $1 million to fund programs aimed at innovation in healthcare. Of the 141 U.S. medical schools, 118 applied for a grant.
Since 2002, 17 new medical schools have been accredited.
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Tim Casey joined TriMed Media Group in 2015 as Executive Editor. For the previous four years, he worked as an editor and writer for HMP Communications, primarily focused on covering managed care issues and reporting from medical and health care conferences. He was also a staff reporter at the Sacramento Bee for more than four years covering professional, college and high school sports. He earned his undergraduate degree in psychology from the University of Notre Dame and his MBA degree from Georgetown University.