ELEC 5058 Healthcare Value
Course Directors: Fred Campbell, MD and Raj Seghal, MD
The course is intended to give students a background in the principles of Value-Based Health Care, with the goal of developing thinkers and leaders in healthcare who will be able to guide and implement systemic healthcare changes. The course is targeted toward students in their preclinical years, to offer a lens through which they can view their clinical education. However, this course will also benefit students in their fourth and fifth years by giving them financial and systemic information about the healthcare system not currently taught in existing curriculum. Contact hours = 18.
Course Objectives
- Teach value-based healthcare (VBHC) principles and their clinical application
- Understand methods of measuring patient outcomes
- Expose students to the complexity of healthcare spending and its impact on health outcomes
- Teach students to think critically about inefficiencies in the current healthcare model and provide them with tools to decrease waste and increase the quality and value of care
- Inform students about different systems of healthcare delivery, including patient-centered medical homes and integrated practice units
- Understand patient and physician barriers to improving healthcare quality
- Inspire students to make an impact on the value of patient care and develop VBHC-based projects and initiatives to help solve current healthcare problems
Session 1 | Value
The primary goal of this session is to teach the foundations of health care value and discuss how the concepts apply within the local practice or learning environment.
Session 2 | Costs
Introduce the concepts/terminology of costs in the healthcare field. Additionally, students will explore the current predominant systems of reimbursement (e.g., fee-for-service), along with alternative payment models (e.g., bundled payments) that could potentially reinforce high-value care delivery.
Session 3 | Delivery
The primary goal of this session is to teach components of value-based health care delivery and discuss how these can be practically applied in the clinic or hospital setting.
Session 4 | Bedside
The primary goal of this session is to teach components of value-based health care delivery and discuss how these can be practically applied in the clinic or hospital setting. Understand the effects on patients of high medication costs, strategies to decrease out of pocket costs, and learn high-value prescribing.
Session 5 | Culture
The primary goal of this session is to teach learners how to recognize the components of organizational systems and to affect change at the systems level.
Session 6 | Your Turn
Allow time for students to critically analyze everything they’ve learned and put it into action. Students will bring to class an issue in healthcare. In small groups they will come up with and present a theoretical solution.