Training Physicians for Practice in the 21st Century

Welcome…

UME-21 (Undergraduate Medical Education for the 21^st Century) is a web-supported medical education project undertaken in collaboration with the University of Miami School of Medicine, the University of Miami School of Education, the AvMed Health Plan, the Dade County Area Health Education Center, the Miami-Dade Health Department, the Overtown Community Health Center, the Jefferson Reaves Community Center and the Camillus Clinic for the Homeless. This project is funded by US Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Division of Medicine.

UME-21 complements and extends the University of Miami Medical School's four-year undergraduate medical curriculum in health care delivery systems and managed care. Each year of this program includes a different emphasis intended to provide students in the program with an increasingly sophisticated understanding of how managed care is redefining the role of traditional health care delivery systems and physician practice.

During each year of the four year medical sequence a new theme will be introduced with the purpose of extending and building upon the previous year's acquistion of skills and knowledge. This sequence includes

Year 1: Developing a Perspective: An Analysis of Health Care Today

Year 2: Building a Knowledge and Skills Base for the Future

Year 3: Applying the Concepts and Principles in Practice

Year 4: Constructing a Model of Health Care Delivery

This web site complements the four-year curriculum outlined above. It is designed to help learners develop a broadly based perspective on today's health care  system, and the knowledge and skills required by physicians to function effectively and efficiently in the modern delivery system by exposing them to the perspectives and needs of its individual constituents, including patients, medical providers and managed health care organizations.

Six independent web-based learning units support and build upon the first year curriculum components that make up this program. These include:

Unit 1. Introduction to Basic Concepts of Health Care Economics, Health Care Delivery Systems and Managed Care

Unit 2. Ethical Issues in Managed Care.

Unit 3. Quality Measurement and Improvement in Health care Delivery.

Unit 4. Clinical Guidelines and Standards of Care.

Unit 5.Managing Patient Care: Pre-authorization, Resource Utilization,  Complex Disease Management.

Unit 6. Outcomes in Health Care: Evaluating Service and Evaluating Clinical Care.

You can explore any of these six units by clicking on the item in the list above, or by  clicking on the hyperlinked buttons on the left side of this web page. In addition to these six educational modules we include: an introductory unit on web skills; a  selection of readings relevant to each of the six units; a collection of relevant web links, and glossary for the curriculum.

Please contact Dr. Mark T. O’Connell moconnell@miami.edu or Dr. Eugene F. Provenzo, Jr. provenzo@miami.eduwith questions or comments. Copyright 2001, University of Miami, School Medicine. All rights reserved.