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A1 Cullen E
T1 Health policy in medical education: What young physicians know about the affordable care act: comment on "medical students and the affordable care act: uninformed and undecided"
JF Archives of Internal Medicine
JO Archives of Internal Medicine
YR 2012
FD November 12
VO 172
IS 20
SP 1605
OP 1606
DO 10.1001/2013.jamainternmed.403
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/2013.jamainternmed.403
AB 
In addition to demonstrating that support for the bill is strong among the medical students compared in the survey, the study delves into the factors that influence medical student attitudes toward the ACA and evaluates their basic understanding of the legislation. Results suggest that future physicians of America feel strongly about expanding access to the uninsured. But the study also unearths a disturbing truth—that medical students don't feel they know that much about the ACA. Therefore, if we are to truly become game changers in health reform, moving beyond simply supporting the legislation, medical students will need to harness new understanding of health policy, best achieved by empowering and changing medical education in this area.