BUSM Leadership provided an overview of each of the four years of medical school and discussed the complexity of integrating basic science teaching with clinical experience and the substantial cost of doing so. The importance of the research enterprise was stressed both as a resource and a tool for educating physicians as well as the value to society. \u201cFor every dollar spent on research, eight dollars is generated,\u201d said Dean Antman<\/a>. \u201cPhysicians practicing medicine also generate millions of dollars in their communities.\u201d<\/p>\n The \u201cmedical students\u201d attended an anatomy class which included a cadaver dissection and had the opportunity to \u201ctreat\u201d a patient using a Patient Simulator. They concluded their \u201cmedical education\u201d with a Match Day letter and an accounting of their educational debt, noted at the average of $160,000. To start their postgraduate training, they were greeted by Kate Walsh, president and CEO of BMC, in the emergency department. Walsh shared the mission of the hospital which cares for the underserved in Boston and regionally. \u201cSeventy-five percent of our patients are eligible for publicly funded health insurance,\u201d said Walsh. \u201cWe recognize that a medical issue may be only a small part of what our patients need to be healthy. They may have nowhere to live and are not sure where the next meal is coming from. \u201c<\/p>\n Participants were paired up with residents and \u201cassigned\u201d patients, following them from the emergency department to inpatient family medicine. A graduation ceremony was conducted in the evening at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, after the participants also visited the Boston VA and Carney Hospital.<\/p>\n \u201cMedical education is the foundation and future of our nation\u2019s health-care system,\u201d said Walsh. \u201cIt is a complex, collaborative process that requires substantial resources, both intellectual and financial.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and Boston Medical Center (BMC) hosted legislative aides and medical education staffers participating in an Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) initiative where they received a compressed \u201cmedical education\u201d followed by \u201cresidency”. The goal of the program is to inform policymakers on issues affecting the future of medical education. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":903,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6541"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/903"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Cobeth](\"\/camed\/files\/2011\/05\/Cobeth-AAMC-Day-354x300.jpg\" "\\"Cobeth")
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