Teaching Health Policy to Residents

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Authors Reply:—We are delighted to see additional opportunities identified by Goetz et al. for both residents as well as students to learn about and engage in health policy. It is our hope that as interest in such experiences continues to rise, health policy will receive more attention in medical school and residency curricula across the country. Some schools and programs may even be able to coordinate their on-site education with intensive Washington-based initiatives, such as the ACEP Leadership Day. Furthermore, beyond residency, many internal medicine departments offer more in-depth training in health policy education and research through general internal medicine fellowships,1 and graduates of any specialty are eligible for similar training through the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program.2 …