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Intermountain and U of U announce partnership for new, community focused physician training program Eli Kirshbaum | Apr 8, 2021
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In a “first of its kind” initiative, Intermountain Healthcare has partnered with the University of Utah (U of U) to implement a new medical education program. This program will teach medical school students about population health and how to preemptively treat communities and keep them healthy.
The partnership is part of Intermountain’s Population Health initiative, which focuses on preventive care. Rather than solely focusing on in-the-moment, immediate health needs of patients, this initiative aims to identify causes of illnesses early on in order to prevent community members from becoming sick.
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Intermountain Healthcare is working on a transformative model for the future of healthcare called population health that focuses on keeping people in communities healthy and pre-emptively addressing cause of illnesses, rather than just treating people when they are sick.
As an important additional step, Intermountain is partnering with the University of Utah to jointly develop a new medical educational program the first of its kind in the United States to be used to train the next generation of physicians in population health, which focuses on keeping people and communities healthy and addresses factors that can lead to illness and injury in an effort to prevent those from occurring.
Intermountain partners with University of Utah to jointly develop new medical educational program
Intermountain Healthcare is working on a transformative model for the future of healthcare called population health that focuses on keeping people in communities healthy and pre-emptively addressing cause of illnesses, rather than just treating people when they are sick.
As an important additional step, Intermountain is partnering with the University of Utah to jointly develop a new medical educational program the first of its kind in the United States to be used to train the next generation of physicians in population health, which focuses on keeping people and communities healthy and addresses factors that can lead to illness and injury in an effort to prevent those from occurring.