FP MD 7600

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Course Details

Course: FP MD 7600 - Population Health Management

Description: Brief Description of Course:

In 2010, an Institute of Medicine expert panel estimated that a minimum of 30 percent, and probably over 50 percent, of all money spent on health care is waste - non-value adding from a patient's perspective. Some have asserted that waste could account for as much as 65 percent of all health care spending. In 2018, a mid-point 50 percent estimate totals to more than $1.8 trillion dollars in financial opportunity.

Almost half of all waste extraction opportunities - almost a trillion dollars per year - fall within a relatively new approach called "population health." Population health includes (1) treatments provided even though associated risks outweigh any potential benefit to the patient; (2) treatments that patients would have refused, had they been given a complete description of the treatment and its likely outcomes; and (3) high-order treatments (specialist visits, hospitalizations, ED visits, or surgical procedures) that a patient could have avoided with better "upstream" health behaviors, social networks, physical environment, public health, or primary care (low-order treatments).

Population health is strongly associated with new "pay for value" health financing mechanisms. Both seek to control health care costs, aligning financial incentives around waste elimination through better clinical outcomes. "Bending the cost curve" could keep health care services widely accessible within modern societies.

Process management science (quality improvement) provides a very strong framework to understand then manage population health, directly addressing both clinical and financial issues. On that foundation, this course will support medical students as they prepare to effectively execute population health principles within a value-based healthcare framework.

DATES & TIMES
This course is asynchronous and longitudinal, occurring throughout the entire semester. Work may be completed as possible within the student's schedules. Students are expected to work an average of 3 hours per week, for a total of 40 hours total, throughout the semester.

Department: Family and Preventive Medicine

Credit Range: 1 - 1

Permission Required: No

School Years: MSIIMSIIIMSIV

Course Classifications: ELECTIVE

Coordinator(s): DARELLI-ANDERSON,ANNA DC | anna.darelli-anderson@utah.edu

Directors(s): James,Brent (DD) | brent.james@utah.edu

Possible Grade(s): Fail (F)Pass (P)

Prerequisites: None

Add Policy: Course may be added to schedule by the start date.

Drop Policy: Course may be dropped from schedule 15 days after the course has started.

Academic Years

Title	Year	Tags	#Sec
FP MD 7600 - Population Health Management	2025/2026	ELECTIVE
FP MD 7600 - Population Health Management	2024/2025	ELECTIVE
FP MD 7600 - Population Health Management	2023/2024	ELECTIVE	1
FP MD 7600 - Population Health Management	2022/2023	ELECTIVE	1
FP MD 7600 - Population Health Management	2021/2022	ELECTIVE	1