Creating Leadership Roles for Integrating Value into Academic Medical Programs

By: Christopher Moriates, MD, assistant dean for healthcare value and associate professor of internal medicine, Dell Medical School at The University of Texas at Austin I have a made-up administrative title. I know this because, in 2016, we made it up. When you make up a title, you get to be the first “assistant dean for healthcare value”… but I do not want to be the only one. So, what does an assistant dean for healthcare value do? In a recent Academic Medicine article, Dr. Pam Johnson and colleagues from Johns Hopkins describe the critical role academic institutions must play in advancing high value care. They “charge academic institutions to go beyond dissemination of best practice guidelines and demonstrate accountability for high value quality improvement implementation.” At Dell Medical School at The University of Texas at Austin, my position represents some of that accountability. It demonstrates the commitment of the institution to elevate the work of high value care education and implementation to the dean’s office. In my assistant dean role, I strive to be a “bridging leader” to “merge the health system and education silos,” as described by Drs. Reshma Gupta and Vinny Arora in a 2015 JAMA article. At Dell Med, I am far from alone in this role. I work with and learn from international leaders in value-based health care, such as Kevin Bozic and Elizabeth Teisberg. However, in other training programs across the US, the lack of local faculty who are ...
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