Value-Added Roles for Medical Students

Dr. Jed Gonzalo is Assistant Professor of Medicine and Public Health Sciences and Associate Dean for Health Systems Education. He oversees the design of curricula related to the emerging field of health systems science, which prepares physicians for evolving health systems. Gonzalo is funded by the AMA "Accelerating Change in Medical Education” initiative, has 39 peer-reviewed publications related to medical education and clinical research, and is one of the authors our AMA Health Systems Science text. In his first five years as a member of the Penn State faculty, Gonzalo has been awarded seven education awards. He also won the National Society of General Internal Medicine Scholarship in Medical Education Award in 2016. Maya Hammoud, MD, MBA, is Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Professor of Medical Education at the University of Michigan Medical School, and the AMA's special adviser on medical education innovation. She is a fellow ACOG and past president of the Association of Professors of Gynecology and Obstetrics (APGO). Dr. Gregory Schneider teaches medical students at all levels, concentrating on clinical skills, ethics, and the social factors involved in health. His career has focused on higher and medical education with over 20 years of teaching. Dr. Schneider spent a decade teaching undergraduate liberal arts, earning tenure at a liberal arts college, and more than 10 years teaching at the medical school level. He has practiced primary care in academic health, student health care, and community health center settings. These experiences have all contributed to his appreciation of the importance of the doctor-patient relationship, empathy, and working as part of a diverse caregiving team.

• Part 1 Theory1. Concept of Value-Added Roles: Creating a Community of Practice2. Current and Emerging Models3. The Role of Program Evaluation in Valued-Added Medical Education: Overall Outcomes and Connections to the Assessment of LearningPart 2 Practice/Preclerkship, Clerkship, and Longitudinal Experiences4. Students as Patient Navigators: The Penn State College of Medicine5. Students as Patient Navigators: Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine6. Primary Care Quality Improvement: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill7. Household-Centered Service-Learning: Florida International University Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine8. Early Medical Students as Clinical Microsystem Agents of Change-Improving Quality, Value, and the Patient Experience: University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine9. Plan-Do-Study-Act: Vanderbilt University School of Medicine10. Community Health in Action: A.T. Still University’s School of Osteopathic Medicine in ArizonaPart 3 Implementation11. Vision and Planning Value-Added Roles12. Launching and Sustaining Value-Added Roles13. Improving and Growing Value-Added Roles