Comments on: Lost in Translation: Primary Care in the Perilous Game of GME Redistribution and Expansion http://medicaleducationfutures.org/blog/2009/12/lost-in-translation-primary-care-in-the-perilous-game-of-gme-redistribution-and-expansion/ Essential Health Policy News for Med School Educators and Students Sat, 31 Jul 2010 05:46:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Jason Azuma, MPH http://medicaleducationfutures.org/blog/2009/12/lost-in-translation-primary-care-in-the-perilous-game-of-gme-redistribution-and-expansion/#comment-5936 Jason Azuma, MPH Wed, 16 Dec 2009 19:48:30 +0000 http://medicaleducationfutures.org/blog/?p=174#comment-5936 Very well said. No matter what your personal position is on this debate, we are well beyond the point were we need serious evidence-based discussion on how to reform our system. And while we could start to examine our quagmire from many different points of view, the issue of physician graduate education may be one of the most powerful drivers in bringing about positive change. Another thoughtful commentary of this point http://edition.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/05/27/epperly.doctors/index.html references an indespensible article Baicker, K., & Chandra, A. (2009). Cooper's Analysis Is Incorrect. Health Aff, 28(1), w116-118) that is part of a must read scientific dialogue on the subject. The time for kneejerk policy making is over. We must question our deepest assumptions and pay due diligence to the findings that less may in fact be more...more affordable and with more quality. Very well said. No matter what your personal position is on this debate, we are well beyond the point were we need serious evidence-based discussion on how to reform our system. And while we could start to examine our quagmire from many different points of view, the issue of physician graduate education may be one of the most powerful drivers in bringing about positive change. Another thoughtful commentary of this point

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/05/27/epperly.doctors/index.html

references an indespensible article

Baicker, K., & Chandra, A. (2009). Cooper’s Analysis Is Incorrect. Health Aff, 28(1), w116-118)

that is part of a must read scientific dialogue on the subject.

The time for kneejerk policy making is over. We must question our deepest assumptions and pay due diligence to the findings that less may in fact be more…more affordable and with more quality.

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