Health Policy Elective - Pre-Course Curriculum
Welcome REHP participants! Thank you for viewing this curriculum in advance of the course.
Please note that these materials have been carefully selected for you as adult learners and busy physicians. They contain essential information in short, informative videos and brief articles. The curriculum is divided into two sections, mandatory topics and advanced topics. The advanced items are for those with prior health policy experience and/or an appetite for more knowledge.
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Mandatory Items
Introduction and Overview of the US Healthcare System
Introduction to Federal Government
Private Insurance
- Test yourself! How much do you know about health insurance? http://kff.org/quiz/health-insurance-quiz/
- Health Insurance Explained: The Youtoons (5:24)
- Trends in Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance Premiums
Medicare, Medicaid, and the Uninsured
- Medicare at a glance: Fact Sheet
- Medicaid Moving Forward: Issue Brief
- The Uninsured, Khan Academy/Brookings (11:23)
- The Uninsured: a primer-KFF (you can either read the KFF article or view the Khan Academy video)
Basics of Health Economics
Introduction to the Affordable Care Act
Overtreatment
Social Determinants of Health
Global Health
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Advanced Topics
Medical Malpractice
- Brian Goldman: Doctors make mistakes. Can we talk about that? (19:29)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUbfRzxNy20
Pharmaceutical Policy and Conflicts of Interest
- Top drugmakers spend more on marketing than research. Note: the infographic makes the point. The video is just for fun (17:12)
http://www.vox.com/2015/2/11/8018691/big-pharma-research-advertising - Following the Script: How Drug Reps Make Friends and Influence Doctors
PLoS: http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.0040150
Health Economics
- Harvard School of Public Health: Payment Structure -1
- NY Times: The Problem with ‘Pay for Performance in Medicine’
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/29/upshot/the-problem-with-pay-for-performance-in-medicine.html?emc=eta1&_r=0&abt=0002&abg=0
Death, Dying, and End-of-Life Care
- TEDx.Peter Saul: Let’s talk about dying
http://www.ted.com/talks/peter_saul_let_s_talk_about_dying.html - TEDMED 2013. Amanda Bennett: We need a heroic narrative for death
http://www.ted.com/talks/amanda_bennett_a_heroic_narrative_for_letting_go.html
Patient-Centered Care
- TEDGlobal 2011. Abraham Verghese: A doctor’s touch
http://www.ted.com/talks/abraham_verghese_a_doctor_s_touch.html - TEDMED.Sally Okun: Does anyone in healthcare want to be understood?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1RGRpqzRIA
Health Care Marketplace
- Brian Goldman: Doctors make mistakes. Can we talk about that? (19:29)