{"id":3151,"date":"2016-06-09T10:45:54","date_gmt":"2016-06-09T14:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=3151"},"modified":"2016-06-09T10:45:54","modified_gmt":"2016-06-09T14:45:54","slug":"at-this-medical-school-students-mix-science-and-health-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=3151","title":{"rendered":"At This Medical School, Students Mix Science And Health Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Julie Rovner for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>Medical students cram a lot of basic science and medicine into their first two years of training. But most learn next to nothing about the intricacies of the health care system they are soon to enter.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s something the medical school at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., is trying to remedy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cClinicians today have to graduate being great providers of individual care,\u201d said Dr. Lawrence Deyton, the senior associate dean who\u2019s spearheading this effort. \u201cBut they also have to recognize and be able to act on the fact that their patients, when they leave the clinic or leave the hospital, are going home [and] living in situations where there are all kinds of factors that promote and perpetuate chronic disease.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/khn.org\/news\/at-this-medical-school-students-mix-science-and-health-policy\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A+First+Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=30424414&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_sA2ztDuaWxU_-yhM3DXNokPA05leATAesSwOAnWQtz1chzOQpKBmS0241Xd2q2XOZd8mwhLS-wClT_G9KCM96V-0Nwg&amp;_hsmi=30424414\" target=\"_blank\">Read article here&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: 15px\/1.6 'Open Sans', serif; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: #444444; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 1; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: inherit; background-color: #ffffff; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">Kaiser Health News\u00a0is\u00a0a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. 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