TY - JOUR
AU - Lewis, Victoria
AB - PRACTICE FORUM MD/MSW: A Call for a New Dual-Degree Program Grayson Holt, Jeffrey S. Zabinski, and Victoria Lewis s physicians in the United States attempt to set that contributes significantly to improving pa- address the evolving needs of the American tient outcomes. Evidence-based examples include A healthcare system, dual-degree programs medication adherence; 20 percent to 30 percent of for physicians havebecomean avenuefor develop- new prescriptions are never filled, and less than 60 ing deep expertise beyond clinical care that may have percent of patients with chronic diseases take their broad impacts across the healthcare system (IHS medication as prescribed (Ju ¨ ngst et al., 2019; Vis- Markit, 2021; Keisler-Starkey & Bunch, 2020). In wanathan et al., 2012). Therefore, even with a the last decade both the prevalence and popularity of carefully considered treatment plan, a substantial dual-degree programs have risen (Goyal et al., 2015; percentage of patients will not benefit from the Reilly et al., 2021). Popular master’s degrees among physician’s medical knowledge if underlying reasons physicians include the master of public health for medication nonadherence are not addressed. (MPH), master of public policy (MPP), and master Medication nonadherence is multifactorial, and so- of business administration (MBA; Alamri, 2018). 
TI - MD/MSW: A Call for a New Dual-Degree Program
JF - Health & Social Work
DO - 10.1093/hsw/hlad018
DA - 2023-06-12
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/md-msw-a-call-for-a-new-dual-degree-program-7FC64gB2Ic
SP - 217
EP - 219
VL - 48
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -