The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College has integrated health care delivery science, which includes quality improvement and leadership training, into its medical school curriculum.
Teaching medical students to use evidence effectively means helping them learn to analyze the quality of evidence, apply evidence-based recommendations to their own patients, rely on other evidence experts, and appreciate the complexity of medical decision making.
Use of decision-support systems can improve quality of patient care in residency training programs if the resident physician users participate in the development and routine revision of those systems.