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Healthy Outcomes Training Pathway

The Healthy Outcomes Training Pathway is a two-year, cohort-based professional development community for IU School of Medicine graduate medical education (GME) trainees. The pathway is integrated into existing training programs, without adding length to training. Our mission is to use a health systems science lens to educate and empower resident physicians to discuss, identify, act upon, and teach about healthy outcomes that differ across groups in their everyday practice of medicine. Our vision is to develop leaders in medicine throughout Indiana and the United States who are equipped to address gaps in patient care.

The Healthy Outcomes Training Pathway will provide:

Training in core principles and concepts related to healthy outcomes and health systems science.
Opportunities to practice skills learned through the curriculum.
Support to develop and implement a pilot scholarly project related to each learner’s interests (e.g., curricula, community-engagement).

Application

Residents and fellows are invited to apply for the Healthy Outcomes Training Pathway in their first postgraduate year but may apply in subsequent years if they have at least two years of residency/fellowship remaining. Applications open on Jan. 27 and close on Feb. 24.

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Learning Objectives

The cohort will participate in monthly training sessions with leaders, educators, researchers, and subject matter experts.

By the end of the pathway, learners will be able to:

Describe health outcomes and health systems science principles and concepts
Explain the material, psychosocial, behavioral, and biomedical aspects that contribute to different health outcomes across groups
Apply a critical lens to teaching and communicating about health systems problems
Critique and respond to the goals and implications of public health policy
Evaluate levels of action within a physician’s sphere of influence
Examine ethical considerations and implications of work that addresses patient care gaps
Compare various approaches to and methodologies for research
Identify, support and engage with community partners and funders
Assess the leadership, collaboration and interprofessional teaming skills necessary to implement initiatives successfully
Design and implement a curriculum, intervention or research project

Program Eligibility

Open to all residents and fellows who are completing at least the first year of their training program, or fellows preparing to start a shorter (less than two year) fellowship.
Trainees with a strong interest in improving health outcomes for all populations, particularly in resource poor settings.
Any level of prior training/experience acceptable.

Program Team

Director

Andreia Alexander, MD, PhD, MPH

Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine

Dr. Alexander is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, Associate Program Director for the Emergency Medicine Residency, and Co-Director of the Healthy Outcomes Pathway at Indiana University School of Medicine. Dr. Alexander completed her undergraduate education at the University of Florida. She then attended IU Bloomington for her Master of Public Health Degree. After a short stent as a high school teacher and basketball coach, Dr. Alexander attended medical school at IUSM in the MD/PhD (MSTP) Program. She completed her Emergency Medicine Residency at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School in Newark, NJ. Her clinical and research interests include resident education, improving Emergency Department care for sexual and reproductive health issues, and raising awareness of systemic racism and implicit biases in ED clinical practice and their influence on health inequities. Over the past few years, Dr. Alexander has worked hard to integrate DEI and strategies to eliminate health inequities throughout the residency curriculum. She has developed a longitudinal simulation curriculum on addressing microaggressions in the clinical learning environment and is currently working on an intervention to increase access to contraception in the emergency department. Dr. Alexander also serves on the Board of Trustees for the Indiana State Medical Association and on their Commission on Legislation where she advocates for health policy that will decrease health inequities. Because of this work, in 2021 Dr. Alexander was named to EMRA’s Top 25 Under 45 Influencers in Emergency Medicine and she received the Indiana University Trustee Teaching Award in 2022.

Healthy Outcomes Training Pathway

Application

Learning Objectives

Program Eligibility

Program Team

Andreia Alexander, MD, PhD, MPH

Jennifer Mattei, MPH

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2023-2025 Cohort

Grace Arias, MD

Asna Asrar, MD

Alexandra Britten, MD

Analissa Cox, MD

Jaya Parulekar, MD

2024-2026 Cohort

Kristen Kaiser, MD

Jesse P. Cannella, MD

Purva Patel, MD

Maya O. Cloyd, MD, MPH

Anisha Sharma, MD

Farida Abi Farraj, MD

Krishna Manohar, MD

Jasmine Lee, MD

Naomi E. Samuel, MD

Ambar Godoy Rivas, MD

Anna R. Stock, DO

Nicole C. Adams, DO

Maya D. Merriweather, MD, MPH