ACP sponsors High Value Care fellowship program for residents

The newly created Choosing Wisely High Value Care in Action Fellowshp, sponsored by the ABIM Foundation, the American College of Physicians, and the Section on Evidence Based Health Care of the New York Academy of Medicine, will provide residents and subspecialty trainees an opportunity to pursue projects aimed at reducing unnecessary care.

The fellowship is open to first- and second-year residents or fellows, who must propose a plan to implement and study the effects of a high-value care clinical intervention project to reduce unnecessary care at their home institution.

Upon selection, fellows will participate in the Teaching Evidence Assimilation for Collaborative Healthcare (TEACH) workshop at the New York Academy of Medicine in August to learn from experts about the science of “knowledge translation,” which is focused on the effective implementation of practice reforms. Following attendance at the TEACH workshop, fellows will work to implement a clinical intervention project to reduce unnecessary costs within their home institutions in either the hospital or the outpatient setting and rigorously study its effects so that the project can be disseminated to other institutions.

Fellows will be invited to present their implementation project at the 2016 ACP Internal Medicine Meeting and will receive mentorship and statistical support with the goal of publishing the project in a peer-reviewed journal. The fellowship application deadline is March 11.