CD-ROMs

Understanding Managed Care CD-ROM: Learning the Essentials through Case Presentations
This easy-to-use, self-paced CD-ROM is a four-module program that establishes a framework for understanding the basic principles and practices of managed care. The Accompanying User's/Facilitator's Guide contains discussion questions for faculty-led instructional sessions.
Available in four versions: primary care practitioners, primary care residents, surgical residents, or medical students. Click here to learn more. Click here to order.

Making Care Decisions at the End of Life: Three CD-ROM Series and Facilitator's Guide
This CD-ROM series of trigger scenarios and roundtable discussions helps develop physicians' and other clinical staff's skills and comfort level with assisting patients and families at the end of life. Designed for facilitated discussions in small groups or Grand Rounds settings. Also useful for self-paced study. Click here to learn more. Click here to order.

CURRICULA

Curriculum Guide on Managing Care: A Systems-Based Approach
This Guide is a training resource to help develop resident and student competency in Systems-Based Practice and Practice-Based Learning and Improvement. Materials for 12 sessions addressing the tools and techniques for effective, high quality care management include: lesson plans, slide presentations, cases and practice scenarios, references, quizzes, and other instructional materials for faculty and learners. The Guide also comes with a CD-ROM containing the full set of instructional materials. Click here to learn more. Click here to order.

Finding and Evaluating Web-based "Evidence" Using Pain Treatment as a Case Study
A 50+ page guide (plus a regularly updated disk of Internet resources) that helps practitioners learn to navigate the Internet to obtain and evaluate clinical evidence-based guidelines for application to practice. Click here to order.

Preparing Physicians-in-Training to Succeed: A Curriculum Guide on Managing Care for Primary Care Residents-Teaching Tools for Faculty
A comprehensive curriculum designed to help program directors and other faculty integrate care management principles and practices into residency training and medical school. Included with the suggested teaching approaches are supporting instructional materials for each module. Each unit is also available separately. Click here to learn more. Click here to order.

REFERENCE MATERIALS

Tufts Health Care Institute Bibliography on Health Care and Care Management
This bibliography has more than 300 recent articles and reports offering useful information for successful practice in the evolving health care environment. Entries are organized according to Tufts Health Care Institute's Curriculum Framework. To learn more about the THCI Curriculum Framework, click here. To order the Bibliography, click here.

Managed Care at a Glance
This reference tool contains more than 200 health and managed care terms, organized by content and topic, with an alphabetical index. Click here to order.

Proceedings
THCI's published proceedings from several of its summits and conferences are available for free. Click here to learn more and order. Click here for executive summaries of the proceedings.

Conference Materials
Materials are available from THCI's national conferences.

• Click here for information about our 2003 program entitled "Competency Assessment: Forethought Not Afterthought - Current Practices and Innovations in Graduate Medical Education".
• Click here for information about our 2002 program entitled "Practical Approaches for Achieving Required Competencies in Systems-Based Practice and Practice-Based Learning and Improvement."
• Click here for information about our 2001 program entitled "Meeting the Challenge of Medicaid Managed Care: Best Practices for Clinical Care and Teaching."
• Click here for information about our 2000 program entitled "Improving Health Care System Performance."

Articles
THCI faculty and staff have authored a number of articles that have appeared in health care and medical journals. For reprints and more information, click here.