Medical Education with Dr. Mark Schuster

Relational Rounds

Dr. Mark Schuster is a physician, scientist, and advocate for healthy families and communities. Dr. Schuster is recognized as an international leader in research on child, adolescent, and family health, concentrating on topics such as quality of care, health disparities, family leave, obesity prevention, and bullying. Dr. Mark is a founding dean and CEO of Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine; he explains the most important aspects of their innovative approach in teaching medicine integrating foundational, clinical, and health system science together as well as giving students the opportunity to work with patients starting in the second year. Addressing burnout and social environmental factors are two areas of main importance in Kaiser too. The change in the health system starts in how physicians are being trained. Listen to this episode and discover a different approach to medical education.

Key takeaways:

[:33] Dr. Mark Schuster career briefing.

[1:26] One of the one hundred most influential people in healthcare.

[3:50] What need did Kaiser identify that Dr. Mark is trying to fill? The most effective approach for medical education.

[5:38] How best to design medical education in the U.S?

[6:38] Before, students used to absorb content passively in Medical training.

[8:55] Kaiser provides a small-group, case-based learning approach.

[9:22] Working in integrating foundational, clinical, and health system science together.

[11:45] Spiral approach.

[12:05] Students at Kaiser are not working on cadavers.

[14:14] Humanism while studying medicine.

[15:15] Second year at Keiser provides interaction with patients.

[17:11] Using imaging for anatomy.

[17:35] How can a health system address social environment risks?

[22:13] Physicians have to address community health.

[20:08] Addressing the social determinants of health.

[23:22] Physicians have a privileged place in treating mass shooting victims.

[25:32] Training students for them to keep their own self-care as a priority.

[29:03] REACH (Reflection Education Assessment Coaching Health and Wellbeing) weeks are breaks from the regular curriculum.

[32:14] Physician burnout also affects patients.

[37:05] Hot seat!

Mentioned in this Episode:

Relational Rounds at Primary Care Progress

Primary Care Progress on Twitter

Elizabeth Metraux on Twitter

Kaiser School of Medicine