Background: The majority of medical students indicate that the health policy and health systems education they receive is insufficient, even though they will face barriers to practicing care at the systems level. In addition, there is little uniformity or evaluation of pedagogical approaches to health policy in undergraduate medical education, especially in connecting health policy [...]

Background: There is recognition by educational regulatory bodies that physicians need to have some level of leadership skills. In 2007 the Residency Review Committee for Family Medicine approved a new requirement for training in leadership during family medicine residency. Seven years later in 2014, the Journal of Graduate Medical Education published the relationship between physician [...]