In April, Utah University Healthcare and Intermountain Healthcare leaders and doctors gathered to celebrate. Participants also included 11 first-year medical students. Intermountain Healthcare Population Health Scientist Program..
This unique medical education partnership between the University of Utah’s Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine and Intermountain Healthcare (IHC) is now one year old. The goal is to improve health and well-being by training future physicians to provide quality care using an innovative artificial health framework.
Population health works to address and prevent factors that can lead to illness and injury. It also considers social determinants that can affect your health, such as economic, social, and behavioral issues.
In addition to learning about population health, program scholars pay half the tuition fee to the medical school and guarantee employment at Intermountain Healthcare after completing the training.
Valuable and Valuable Partnerships
At the April celebration, leaders of both healthcare systems praised the start and goals of the program. They also talked about the importance of population health for the future of healthcare.
“The first meeting of the first day at the University of Utah was the encounter with Dr. Mark Harrison,” said Dr. Michael Goodh, MD, CEO of the University of Utah. “I always remember that, and I am very grateful for the opportunity to partner with him again in this program. Mark and I both believe in the health of the population, it’s the future, America It’s a way to be able to address many of the challenges of our healthcare system. I don’t think either organization could have created such a program on its own. “
“Mike is supportive and positive,” said Mark Harrison, MD, President and Chief Executive Officer of IHC. “We knew that this partnership and program could change the paradigm of healthcare. We started with a blank slate and from many hard-working people to find our place today. I’ve gotten a lot of help. “
Harrison talked to the program’s student scholars that Intermountain Healthcare is good for the health of the population, but there is still much to learn. “American medical care is terribly broken,” he said. “The scholars of this program are the solution.”
“We need to understand how to keep people healthy, not just taking care of them when they are sick,” Harrison continued. “We also need to put in place an economic system that makes it sustainable to keep people healthy. That’s all possible, but it takes your leadership and courage to get over our humps. “
A unique experience
Karyn A. Springer, MD of IHC, mentioned the program opportunity. “People who were formerly medical students know that it’s not common to be able to connect with people who are in the leadership of a doctor,” she said. “Future healthcare success depends on our leadership. This program asks our scholars to doctor leaders for advice and advice on how to grow as a future doctor as well as a future leader. Gives you the opportunity to get support. In healthcare. “
The scholars are excited and ready to take full advantage of every opportunity in the classroom and work with their doctor’s mentor. Just in the first year, scholars were exposed to the concept of population health, from health care policies to social determinants of health that affect the surrounding communities.
“We hope that the leaders here tonight will be willing to give us the opportunity to become leaders and pave the way for what health care will look like in the future. , I’m very excited, “said program scholar Colin Hunter. .. “We have great classes and we have the opportunity to be leaders in our classes and advocate for the changes we want to see in healthcare.”
Another scholar, Ivy Hansen, is grateful that this program has given her the ability to connect with various healthcare systems in Utah.
“It’s great to learn about Intermountain because we’ve just had this experience at U and it’s very academic,” she said. “It’s really great to join the community and see the different populations across the state on the Intermountain system. We really go somewhere with this program.”
Another scholar, Jordan Tucker, mentioned the verification that he participated in a program that offered so much freedom to explore his interests. “Whether it or not [with] For rural and homeless people, it’s exciting to be able to choose the path I’m passionate about, “he said.
The scholar Rebekah Ford agreed. “It was really enlightening to me to hear all the different ways we could take this program and adjust it to what we find interesting and important,” she said. ..
Program for the future of health care
For leaders, scholars, mentors, and anyone else attending the celebration, such a program makes the future of healthcare look bright. Doctors like Springer look forward to the positive impact of the partnership between U of U Health and IHC.
“The vision for the future is exciting because this is an opportunity to start upstream in medical education,” she said. “To have a pipeline of future physicians who have been exposed to the health of the population from the beginning of medical education. [They’re] Ready to take healthcare where you need it. “
