Accreditation council says medical education needs to be revamped.

Modern Healthcare reports that "medical education training needs to move into the 21st century by focusing more on clinical outcomes and other quality measures along with information technology adoption, representatives from the academic medical community told the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission." According to Thomas Nasca, chief executive officer of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, "The current system rates a 'C' in terms of its proficiency in training physicians." Comment: A new system should also focus on those conditions that epidemiology show are most common, rather than most rare.