Health Economics Unit, School of Health and Population Sciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK.
BMC Med Educ. 2013 Sep 13;13:126. doi: 10.1186/1472-6920-13-126.
In the UK, the General Medical Council clearly stipulates that upon completion of training, medical students should be able to discuss the principles underlying the development of health and health service policy, including issues relating to health economics. In response, researchers from the UK and other countries have called for a need to incorporate health economics training into the undergraduate medical curricula. The Health Economics education website was developed to encourage and support teaching and learning in health economics for medical students. It was designed to function both as a forum for teachers of health economics to communicate and to share resources and also to provide instantaneous access to supporting literature and teaching materials on health economics. The website provides a range of free online material that can be used by both health economists and non-health economists to teach the basic principles of the discipline. The Health Economics education website is the only online education resource that exists for teaching health economics to medical undergraduate students and it provides teachers of health economics with a range of comprehensive basic and advanced teaching materials that are freely available. This article presents the website as a tool to encourage the incorporation of health economics training into the undergraduate medical curricula.
在英国，医学总会明确规定，医学生完成培训后，应当能够讨论健康和卫生服务政策制定的基本原则，包括与卫生经济学相关的问题。为此，来自英国和其他国家的研究人员呼吁将卫生经济学培训纳入本科医学课程。健康经济学教育网站的开发是为了鼓励和支持医学生的健康经济学教学和学习。它旨在作为卫生经济学教师交流和共享资源的论坛，同时也提供即时访问卫生经济学支持文献和教学材料的途径。该网站提供了一系列免费的在线材料，可供卫生经济学家和非卫生经济学家使用，以教授该学科的基本原理。健康经济学教育网站是唯一面向医学本科生教授健康经济学的在线教育资源，为卫生经济学教师提供了一系列全面的基础和高级教学材料，这些材料均可免费获取。本文将该网站作为一种工具，以鼓励将卫生经济学培训纳入本科医学课程。
