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How Medical Meetings Can Help A Broken U.S. Healthcare System

PCMA Convene

” – Clay Johnston, dean of the Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin. Illustration by Selman Designs. Johnston has some ideas for how to address that, beginning with the way in which phycisians are trained and receive continuing medical attention. Listen: [link]. Health costs in the U.S.

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What Physicians Will Want out of Your Medical Meeting

PCMA Convene

But the most glaring gap in creating an effective health-care system, he said, relates to human-centered design thinking, i.e., asking what makes sense from the patient’s perspective. So Dell Medical School is changing the way medicine is practiced by changing the way medical students are trained.

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PCMA’s 20 in Their Twenties Class of 2017

PCMA Convene

My favorite part of my job is being on site at our Annual Meeting. Being in medical-meeting planning yields a high level of satisfaction, because I know that our conference provides our membership with education that is critical to improving orthopedic patient care. .

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