New high-value, cost-conscious care curriculum available for internal medicine residents

ACP and the Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine (AAIM) have developed and released a curriculum for training internal medicine residents to practice high value, cost-conscious care. The curriculum focuses on helping residents understand the potential benefits, harms and costs of medical interventions and enabling them to avoid overuse and misuse of tests and treatments that do not improve outcomes and may cause harm.

The curriculum is available for free download on a publicly accessible website. It is designed to engage residents and faculty in small group activities organized around actual patient cases that require careful analysis of the benefits, harms, and costs of intervention and the use of evidence-based, shared decision making. The flexible curriculum consists of 10 one-hour interactive sessions that can be incorporated into the existing conference structure of a program.

More information on ACP's High Value, Cost-Conscious Care Initiative is online.