Kaiser Permanente will launch a medical school focused on training students in its integrated style of care, in the latest sign of growing efforts to expand and reshape traditional physician education.
The big Oakland, Calif.-based managed-care operator said it would build the Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine in southern California, with the goal of enrolling a first class of 48 students in 2019. Kaiser Permanente, a nonprofit that wraps together health plans and health-care providers, will structure the school as a new nonprofit subsidiary and fund the startup costs itself, executives said; they declined to say how much Kaiser planned to invest in the effort.
“It’s a natural evolution for us,” said Bernard J. Tyson, Kaiser’s chief executive, who said the nonprofit considered the initiative part of its community-service mission.
Kaiser officials said the new school would include hands-on experience for students in clinics and hospitals, with a focus on primary care, the use of new technologies, and physicians’ role as part of a caregiving team. Kaiser executives said they haven’t yet settled on a site for the school’s campus. “The physician will not be sitting in a lecture hall like I did,” said Ed Ellison, executive medical director of the Southern California Permanente Medical Group. “It’s taking a different approach, turning the model almost upside-down.”
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Kaiser Permanente To Open Non-Lecture Based New Med School In 2019
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