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	Podcast:		UC Science Today
	Episode:		Training physicians to walk in their patient's shoes
	Category:		Science & Medicine
	Duration:		00:01:04
	Publish Date:		2016-10-22 19:00:00
	Description:		Will doctors of the future and their patients learn to speak the same language? The University of California, San Francisco recently set this ambitious goal with a radically updated curriculum called Bridges. The idea is to get new students involved with clinical teams from the very start - something that traditionally trained doctors did not get to do until a decade into their practice. Dr. Anna Chang, who helped develop Bridges, says a big part of the training is about mindset: to put physicians in the patient's shoes. "We allow first year medical students to work on things like decreasing unnecessary hospital readmissions, to improve patients' understanding of high risk medications or to decrease waiting times in emergency departments - devise strategists to help patients make their appointments." So instead of just memorizing facts in their classrooms the way the old-school doctors did, Chang says, the Bridges' students get out there in the field and learn real-world skills.
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