Call for Submission: Teaching Value and Choosing Wisely Challenge

Costs of Care and the Advancing Medical Professionalism to Improve Health Care (ABIM) Foundation are launching the second annual Teaching Value and Choosing Wisely Challenge to help identify the most promising innovations and bright ideas for teaching high-value care and stewardship to medical trainees. The Hartford Foundation's Amy Berman will serve as one of the judges.

Costs of Care and the ABIM Foundation are launching the second annual Teaching Value and Choosing Wisely Challenge to help identify the most promising innovations and bright ideas for teaching high-value care and stewardship to medical trainees. The Hartford Foundation's Amy Berman will serve as one of the judges.

The Challenge builds on the ABIM Foundation’s Choosing Wisely campaign. While the campaign is helping change the way many physicians practice, it is important that the goals of Choosing Wisely be imparted to the next generation of doctors. However, traditional medical training programs offer few opportunities for physicians-in-training to learn how to deliver the highest quality care at the lowest possible cost when they enter practice.

To help address this gap, Costs of Care has created the Teaching Value Project, that in addition to the Challenge, includes a series of educational modules for trainees and medical educators illustrating core principles of resource stewardship.

Challenge judges include:

• Darrell Kirch, MD, President, Association of American Medical Colleges
• Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, MD, President and CEO, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
• Clarence H. Braddock III, MD, Vice Dean for Medical Education, UCLA Geffen School of Medicine
• Amy Berman, RN, Senior Program Officer, Hartford Foundation
• Vivian Lee, MD, PhD, CEO, University of Utah Health Care

In conjunction with the Challenge, the ABIM Foundation will host a learning network open to all Challenge participants and those interested in advancing stewardship initiatives. The network will convene clinicians across the country who are committed to improving health care delivery and feature monthly spotlights on leadership strategies in medical education. For more information on joining the learning network, contact Alison Brecher at abrecher@abim.org.

Entries will be accepted through January 15, 2015 at http://www.costsofcare.org/teachingvalue. A panel of judges comprised of leaders in medical education will review the entries and winners will be announced in late April.

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