Many medical education curricula lack practical opportunities to discuss macrosocial healthcare flow management and quality improvement. However, if given the right tools and mentoring, medical students and residents are in a unique position to provide important perspectives and creative solutions to healthcare system issues. During their training, medical learners rotate through many departments and institutions, gaining diverse experiences related to system issues. In addition, the knowledge and skills related to analyzing healthcare processes and systems that medical learners could gain may enable them to continue using these tools as attending physicians.

 

In 2023, a group of motivated medical students created and led the innovative McGill Healthcare Management Case Competition (MHCC) to expose medical learners to the aforementioned educational gaps through case-based learning focused on critical upstream issues impacting the healthcare system.