Researchers at New York University (NYU) Target Internal Medicine (National Health Policy Leadership Program for General Internists): Health and Medicine – Internal Medicine

2022 MAR 31 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- Investigators publish new report on Health and Medicine - Internal Medicine. According to news reporting from New York City, New York, by NewsRx journalists, research stated, “Early or mid-career physicians have few opportunities to participate in career development programs in health policy and advocacy with experiential and mentored training that can be incorporated into their busy lives. The Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM) created the Leadership in Health Policy (LEAHP) program, a year-long career development program, to prepare participants with a sufficient depth of knowledge, skills, attitudes, and behaviors to continue to build mastery and effectiveness as leaders, advocates, and educators in health policy.”

The news correspondents obtained a quote from the research from New York University (NYU), “We sought to evaluate the program’s impact on participants’ self-efficacy in the core skills targeted in the curriculum. Fifty-five junior faculty and trainees across three scholar cohorts from 2017 to 2021. Program Description Activities included workshops and exercises at an annual meeting, one-on-one mentorship, monthly webinars and journal clubs, interaction with policy makers, and completion of capstone projects. Program Evaluation Self-administered, electronic surveys conducted before and following the year-long program showed a significant improvement in mean self-efficacy scores for the total score and for each of the six domains in general knowledge, teaching, research, and advocacy in health policy. Compared to the baseline scores, after the program the total mean score increased from 3.1 to 4.1, an increase of 1.1 points on a 5-point Likert scale (95% CI: 0.9-1.3; Cohen’s D: 1.7), with 61.4% of respondents increasing their mean score by at least 1 point. Responses to open-ended questions indicated that the program met scholars’ stated needs to improve their knowledge base in health policy and advocacy skills.”

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “The LEAHP program provides an opportunity for mentored, experiential training in health policy and advocacy, can build the knowledge and amplify the scale of physicians engaged in health policy, and help move physicians from individual patient advocacy in the clinic to that of populations.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: National Health Policy Leadership Program for General Internists. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2022. 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)

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Kelly A. Kyanko, New York University (NYU), Dept. of Population Health, Grossman Sch Med, New York, NY 10016, United States. Additional authors for this research include Mark D. Schwartz, Molly A. Fisher, Latonya Riddle-Jones, Anders Chen, Thomas Staiger and Francine Jetton.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-022-07455-y. 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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