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June 2017

Balancing the Training of Future Cardiologists With the Provision of Team-Based Care

Author Affiliations
  • 1Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California
  • 2Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California
  • 3Division of Primary Care and Population Health, Department of Medicine, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California
  • 4Department of Emergency Medicine, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California
JAMA Cardiol. 2017;2(6):589-590. doi:10.1001/jamacardio.2017.0555

Health care in our country is at a dynamic point, with the quadruple aim of improving the health of populations, enhancing the patient experience of care, reducing the per capita cost of health care, and improving the work life of health care clinicians and staff guiding many health care reform activities.1 Team-based care has been proven to improve patient outcomes and produce cost savings.2 Advanced practice clinicians (APCs), such as physician assistants and nurse practitioners, are a core component of this team-based care approach, and demand for them in the workforce is high and expected to continue.3 Cardiology is no exception to this trend.4 Cardiac APCs are working collaboratively as critical members of the health care team in outpatient clinics, inpatient units, and in procedural and operating rooms. Advanced practice clinicians with extensive educational and clinical experience have become experts across multiple areas of clinical cardiovascular medicine as well as in research and leadership positions.

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