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Health care expenditures in the United States far exceed any other country in the world, yet the United States lags behind other countries in many quality measures. This has led to the recognition that addressing the health of populations is necessary to improve overall healthcare quality while containing costs. The Institutes for Health Improvement (IHI) has identified improving the health of populations as one of the core elements of the “triple aim” for improving the US health care system [1, 2]. The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) has also established managing the care of patients using population-based data as a core requirement for resident training [3]. To address the triple aim and ACGME requirements, residency training programs must embrace the dual responsibility of training residents in direct patient care and in the care of the broader patient population they serve. Resident physicians must therefore develop the skill set necessary to care for the patient in front of them as well as the larger panel of patients attributed to them, i.e., population health management.

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  1. Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, Community Health, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA

    Robert J. Fortuna & Halle G. Sobel

  2. Internal Medicine Residency Program, Division of General Internal Medicine, Larner College of Medicine, University of Vermont Medical Center, Burlington, VT, USA

    Robert J. Fortuna & Halle G. Sobel

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  1. Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA

    Lee B. Lu

  2. School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA

    Robert J. Fortuna

  3. Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA

    Craig F. Noronha

  4. Larner College of Medicine, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA

    Halle G. Sobel

  5. Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA

    Daniel G. Tobin

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Fortuna, R.J., Sobel, H.G. (2023). Population Health Management for Residents. In: Lu, L.B., Fortuna, R.J., Noronha, C.F., Sobel, H.G., Tobin, D.G. (eds) Leading an Academic Medical Practice. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40273-9_25

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