Dartmouth Medical School. Community and Family Medicine. Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences

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Biography

The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice was established in 1988 as the Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences, housed within the Department of Community and Family Medicine at Dartmouth Medical School. In 1993, the MS program in Evaluative Clinical Sciences was established, and a PhD program the following year. In 1996, the first Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care was published and the Clinical Microsystems program started. In 1999, Dartmouth opened at DHMC the first in the nation Center for Shared Decision-Making.. In 2002, a MPH degree program in the Evaluative Clinical Sciences is established.

In 2007, John Wennberg steps down at CECS' first director and the Center is reorganized as the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice under the directorship of James Weinstein. In 2010, Weinstein and Dartmouth President Jim Yong Kim create the Dartmouth Center for Health Care Delivery Science. In 2011 the master's program in health care delivery science is started the following year, and Wenstein steps down to become CEO of Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.

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Dartmouth Medical School, Community and Family Medicine, Center for the Evaluation Clinical Sciences records May Be Restricted

Collection

Identifier: DA-704

DA-704

Date(s): 1968 to 2006

Scope and Contents The collection contains lists, correspondence, reports, work plans, financial data, class schedules, course outlines, article, reprints, handouts, evaluations, readings and assignments. The records document several evaluative clinical science courses, the collaborative study between the University of Manitoba and DHMC entitled "The Manitoba Health Reform Impact Study" under Elliott Fisher, educational programs, and grants and publications related to the FIMDM/Llewellyn Thomas....