A Response to Viewpoints on Healthcare Delivery Science Education Among Practicing Physicians in a Rural State Response to Letter

摘要

We appreciated the letter to the editor from Chandran et al offering their perspectives on the educational commitments required to learn and apply HDSE concepts in practice. In response, we must stress the importance of taking into account the intended learner of our study program. The track we described in our manuscript introduces 12 core topic areas of HDSE and allocates time for the practiced application of these concepts. We acknowledge that this track on its own may be insufficient for physician administrators, who likely need a mastery level of knowledge for their scope of practice. However, we feel that this fundamental training provides an indispensable and beneficial opportunity for established physicians with limited prior didactic HDSE experiences to realize concepts and identify areas to pursue greater depth of knowledge.