Engineering-medicine as a transforming medical education: A proposed curriculum and a cost-effectiveness analysis
Year: 2018
Type: article
Abstract: The current US medical care system faces many challenges.While the cost is very high, the overall quality is disappointing, particularly in access and equity.Facing an increasing demand of medical care, efforts to improve medical care in fulfilling the triple aims of "better care, better health, and lower cost" called for by the National Academy of Medicine are at the front and center in the healthcare debate.In this paper a transformation of current medical education by incorporating engineering principles into traditional medical teaching is introduced along with a proposed curriculum, followed by an economic evaluation of such transforming educational changes.A brief cost-effectiveness analysis on such an engineering-medicine education, from a societal perspective and under a set of assumptions, results in a positive cost-effective outcome.Therefore, on health economic grounds, an engineering-medicine education could be implement in a small subset of students as a proof of concept study.
Source: Biology Engineering and Medicine
DOI: 10.15761/bem.1000142
Author: Lawrence S Chan
Institution: University of Illinois Chicago
Language: English
Subfield: Biomedical Engineering
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2808349823