New Managed Care Findings Has Been Reported by Investigators at University of Chicago (An Op-ed Writing Curriculum for Medical Students To Engage In Advocacy Through Public Writing): Managed Care

2024 APR 09 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- Fresh data on Managed Care are presented in a new report. According to news reporting originating from Chicago, Illinois, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, “<bold>Background:Op-ed writing can be a powerful and accessible advocacy tool for physicians, but training is lacking in undergraduate medical education. <bold >Aim: To train and engage first-year medical students in op-ed writing. <bold >Setting: Midwestern research-intensive medical school. <bold >Participants: All students in a required first-year health policy course in 2021 and 2022. <bold >Program description: For their health policy course’s final assignment, students could opt to write an op-ed on a healthcare issue of their choice. All students received written instruction on op-ed writing.”

Financial supporters for this research include Pritzker School of Medicine, Academy of Distinguished Medical Educators from the Pritzker School of Medicine.

Our news editors obtained a quote from the research from the University of Chicago, “Additionally, they could access a seminar, coaching and editing by peers and faculty, and publication guidance. <bold >Program evaluation: Of 179 students over 2 years, 105 chose to write op-eds. Fifty-one attended the seminar, 35 attended peer coaching sessions, 33 accessed structured peer editing, and 23 received faculty assistance. Thirty-eight students submitted a total of 42 op-eds for publication. Twenty-two pieces were published in major outlets and 17 in the university’s health policy review.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “Of the 22 in major outlets, 21 received editing from either peers or faculty. <bold >Discussion: An op-ed writing curriculum can be integrated into an existing medical school health policy course, resulting in a high level of engagement and in published op-eds by medical students.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: An Op-ed Writing Curriculum for Medical Students To Engage In Advocacy Through Public Writing. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2024. Journal of General Internal Medicine can be contacted at: Springer, One New York Plaza, Suite 4600, New York, Ny, United States. (Wiley-Blackwell - http://www.wiley.com/; Journal of General Internal Medicine - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1525-1497)

The news editors report that additional information may be obtained by contacting V. Ram Krishnamoorthi, University of Chicago, University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60637, United States. Additional authors for this research include Daniel Y. Johnson, Spencer Asay, Alexandra Beem, Lahari Vuppaladhadiam, Grace E. Keegan, Maeson L. Zietowski, Samuel Chen, Vineet M. Arora and Shikha Jain.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-024-08629-6. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

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