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WHAT:National Symposium on Medical and Health Care Education Reform Mayo Clinic Department of Education and Mayo Clinic Health Policy Center (HPC) are convening nationally-known leaders in medical and health care education to develop recommendations that will transform education to best facilitate health care reform.

 

Results of the MD Connector Student Competition, cosponsored by the HPC, will be announced at noon on Tuesday, April 28. Three groups of students are finalists in the competition that sought student input to medical and health care education reform.

 

WHERE:Phillips Hall, Siebens Building, Mayo Clinic Rochester and globally via Web cast with Twitter discussion and updates.

 

WHEN:Monday, April 27 and Tuesday, April 28, beginning at 8 a.m. CT each day

 

WHO:The symposium is hosted by Terrence Cascino, M.D., Executive Dean for Education at Mayo Clinic and Pat Mitchell, President and CEO, The Paley Center for Media. See a complete list of speakers and panelis

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Francine Hardaway chronicles her social experiment during the holiday downtime - inviting members of her various social networks to attend a policy discussion in her home.  The issue?  No small matter - health care policy and what we (the people) can do about it.

 

The meeting seems to provide further evidence that online tools and the networks they spawn can grease the wheels of interaction.  But as the discussion highlights indicate, tackling issues of this magnitude and funneling opportunities for improvements to real decisionmakers will take both systemic and attitudinal change.  Is Washington listening? Hear, hear.