Value-based pricing for medical education?

Medical education: value based teaching.

Value-Based Pricing: L’Enfant Terrible?

Concern over pricing of pharmaceuticals and other health technologies in both highand low-income countries is not new. It has been high on the World Health Organization (WHO) agenda for a number of years [1]. Affordability of products, both to individual patients and to health systems, is one of the main barriers to accessing many effective medicines. In high income countries this debate has be...

Internet resources for medical education

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The value of innovation under value-based pricing.

OBJECTIVE The role of cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) in incentivizing innovation is controversial. Critics of CEA argue that its use for pricing purposes disregards the 'value of innovation' reflected in new drug development, whereas supporters of CEA highlight that the value of innovation is already accounted for. Our objective in this article is to outline the limitations of the convention...

Competency-based medical education in postgraduate medical education.

With the introduction of Tomorrow's Doctors in 1993, medical education began the transition from a time- and process-based system to a competency-based training framework. Implementing competency-based training in postgraduate medical education poses many challenges but ultimately requires a demonstration that the learner is truly competent to progress in training or to the next phase of a prof...