The American College of Physicians (ACP) and MedU have collaborated to create an online High Value Care course for medical students based on a curriculum developed by ACP and the Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine (AAIM).
The online course incorporates active learning strategies and enables medical students to learn about High Value Care in a clinical context at a convenient time and place through six modules: Defining High Value Care & the Importance of Clinical Reasoning; Statistics and Clinical Decision-Making; Preventive Care and Value; Medications and Value; On Rounds: Medical Students, Teams, and High Value Care; and Insurance.
Modules include short interactive virtual patient cases, brief instructional videos, embedded links so that students can apply principles from the High Value Care modules to other cases, and key teaching points.
The course is available to any school or student with a subscription to any MedU course. Funding to create the High Value Care course was provided by the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation, the ABIM Foundation, and AAIM.
ACP's High Value Care initiative is designed to help doctors and patients understand the benefits, harms, and costs of tests and treatment options for common clinical issues so they can pursue care together that improves health, avoids harms, and eliminates wasteful practices. ACP defines High Value Care as the delivery of services providing benefits that make their harms and costs worthwhile. Value is not merely cost. Some expensive tests and treatments have high value because they provide high benefit and low harm. Conversely, some inexpensive tests or treatments have low value because they do not provide enough benefit to justify even their low costs and might even be harmful.
