TEACHING OF MEDICAL ECONOMICS

Teaching Economics

Introduction Ethical considerations intersect with economics education on a number of planes. Nonetheless, in terms of curricula, only a handful of economics departments offer courses specifically focused on ethics. 1 This chapter addresses the ways in which instructors can incorporate ethical components into teaching principles and field courses in order to broaden economic understanding and t...

Teaching the Economics of Sin

This paper describes a course I developed on the Economics of Sin that integrates ethical and economic material.1 My hope is that this paper will be useful to economists interested in exploring ethically complex economic phenomena and to philosophers who are interested in the ethical implications of economic markets and policies. In keeping with this agenda, I proceed by discussing a framework ...

Teaching Economics with Classroom Experiments

Classroom experiments are effective because students are placed directly into the economic environments being studied. This paper surveys some diverse applications, e.g. speculation and multiple markets, coordination games, voting and agendas, and a simple macroeconomy, with particular attention to practical details. After participating, students bring first-hand experience to the discussion, w...

Medical Economics (and Politics)

G et ready! The landscape in medicine is probably going to change rapidly. The starting bell rang in December 2010 in Washington, DC, with very little fanfare when the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) banned doctors from prescribing Avastin to patients with advanced-stage breast cancer. 1 Avastin, a potent but costly drug, has worked in some clinical trials by halting the spread of cancer and...

Topics in medical economics: medical malpractice.