Block Leader: Dr. Johnson
Block Length: 2 Weeks
The Science of Healthcare Delivery will require you to think of medicine more in terms of public health and the social determinants of health. The block covers six domains: team-based care, person-centered care, population-centered care, high-value care, leadership, and health policy, economics, and technology. The class mainly consists of live, in-person only lectures with small group activities embedded into lecture. There is typically pre-work before coming to live lecture that may involve an online module, watching a video, or doing some textbook/article reading. A group of students may be randomly picked at the beginning of each lecture to answer some questions pertaining to the pre-work (Daily Download), so make sure you try to at least glance at it. During these two weeks, you are expected to complete a group project identifying a problem in healthcare delivery and a proposed solution.
You are mainly graded on attendance/participation and the final group project. There are also two write-up assignments: one for an interview session you do with a community partner and one for your final group project write-up. You present your final group project to the entire class and a panel of faculty on the final day of the course.
In 2023, this course was two weeks long, with required sessions 8am to 5pm, with no class on Fridays. Groups were expected to conduct at least three interviews with stakeholders for their final project, so many groups completed those on Fridays or over the weekends. Some days were mostly lecture and small group. Other days involved team-specific health coaching sessions. On these days, the teams that weren't scheduled for a coaching session will be free to do self-directed study from 1-5pm based on the rotation of the schedule. The best you can do in this case is to provide pulse feedback and reach out to professors for clarification and assistance.
Pre-Work - make sure you complete the pre-work whether it is a module with a short quiz, or reading the textbook/article, or watching a video. When you come to lecture the next day, there may be a Daily Download, where 4-6 students are selected at random and will be asked random pertaining to the pre-work.
Lecture and Small Groups - attend the lecture and pay attention. Participate in the small group sessions, as this is how they judge your participation grade. It is totally okay to be wrong, the professors do not expect you to know everything. Most of the time you will have some form of small group project to submit after the session. Learn how to work well with others and be efficient. You will have a small group final project due at the end of the course. This was a point of frustration for most students in previous years because we felt lost and without direction or proper instruction. Reach out to professors or teaching assistant for guidance if you struggle to find an appropriate topic.
Participation - It should be rather simple for you to pass this course as long as you show up, do the assigned work, and actively participate. Conceptually, this should not be a difficult course.
All of the information for this course can be found on its Brightspace page. No outside resources are required.
There is a textbook that will have a few required readings. Do not purchase the textbook, it can be found in the Mayo library and it is best for one person to take images of the specific pages and distribute them to the class because there are not that many readings due from the text.
Last updated in April 2023 by Jessica Su