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AAMC president: Creating future leaders to change health care system and culture will take innovation
NEWPORT, R.I. — Leadership will be key to correcting dysfunctions in the health care system, and creating those future leaders will take innovation, according to Darrell G. Kirch, MD, president and CEO of the Association of American Medical Colleges.Rethinking the selection process for medical school acceptance and shifting the emphasis of medical education to be more competency based are two “success factors” included in the redesign of education that would produce those leaders, Kirch said during the Knapp Symposium at the American Ophthalmological Society meeting.