Mayo Clinic, Arizona State make quality and cost part of medical school curriculum
ASU plans to build a 150,000-square-foot medical facility that will house Mayo's new medical school.
Arizona State University
Arizona State University and the Mayo Clinic this week said they will partner to launch a new medical certificate program focused on healthcare costs at the clinic's new medical school in Scottsdale.
ASU and Mayo will offer courses that focus on how patients receive care to improve quality, outcomes and cost. Students will earn this certificate concurrent with their medical degree from the Mayo Clinic School of Medicine and have the option of pursuing a master's degree in the program through ASU.
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ASU plans to build a 150,000-square-foot medical facility that will house Mayo's new medical school, as well as a medical technology innovation accelerator and biomedical engineering research labs. The Health Solutions Innovation Center is scheduled to break ground in 2017.
In addition to launching the Arizona medical school campus and enrolling the first 50 students in Arizona next summer, Mayo Clinic also has a school in Minnesota -- and all 200 students there are eligible for the certificate.
The newly announced alliance expands an existing relationship that began more than a decade ago using arts and humanities to deliver "bedside solutions to patients who are anxious" through "shared music or shared creative writing programs," said Wyatt Decker, vice president and CEO of the Mayo Clinic in Arizona, in a statement.
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That has grown, he said, "both through grassroots and strategic involvement of our leaders, and we have quite a broad and deep list of projects and strategic initiatives together."
One such project is the Mayo Clinic Proton Beam Program, which draws on ASU physicists, engineers and technologists. Another is a $40 million effort to develop a prototype to detect radiation exposure. Other collaborative work involves a range of fields, including biomedical informatics, molecular detection and medical imaging, metabolic and vascular biology, regenerative and rehabilitative medicine, and wearable biosensors and knowledge management.
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