Lucy Chen

PGY1 @MGHanesthesia | MD-PhD in health policy & management @HarvardMITmdphd @HMSHCP @HarvardHBS

[Lucy Chen @chenlucy8]

As a med student, I’ve looked up to & learned from chief medical residents. What if we better understood the knowledge that docs have about each other’s quality - and harnessed it for quality improvement? New study in @JAMAInternalMed w/ @JMichaelMcW 1/🧵 https://t.co/R6eMNZGuGs

[Lucy Chen @chenlucy8]

So grateful and excited to match @MGHanesthesia for residency training - what a surreal dream!! Many thanks to all of my mentors, teachers, family, friends, and patients over the last 8 years! #Match2024

[The Harvard/MIT MD-PhD Program @HarvardMITmdphd]

Congratulations to the amazing MD-PhD Class of 2024 on achieving the matches of their dreams!♥️ “Kid[s], you’ll move mountains! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So get on your way!” (from Oh, The Places You’ll Go! by the good doctor Seuss). Next stop: Graduation!

[JAMA Internal Medicine @JAMAInternalMed]

Patients of PCPs who were former chief medical residents reported better care experiences than patients of other PCPs in the same practice. Study results suggest that the profession possesses information about physician quality. @chenlucy8 @JMichaelMcW https://t.co/mvzWJVc4k3

[Lucy Chen @chenlucy8]

@robert_huckman @JMichaelMcW Thanks Rob for sharing and your feedback on the work along the way!!

[Lucy Chen @chenlucy8]

@DrHussainL @JAMAInternalMed @JMichaelMcW Thanks for your thoughts! We were wondering about your second point too, but didn’t have data on provider race unfortunately

[Lucy Chen @chenlucy8]

As a med student, I’ve looked up to & learned from chief medical residents. What if we better understood the knowledge that docs have about each other’s quality - and harnessed it for quality improvement? New study in @JAMAInternalMed w/ @JMichaelMcW 1/🧵 https://t.co/R6eMNZGuGs

[Lucy Chen @chenlucy8]

@bnrome Just average effects 😉. Many skilled non-chiefs as well and wish we had a systematic way to identify them too!

[Lucy Chen @chenlucy8]

@nathanvarady @JAMAInternalMed @JMichaelMcW Thanks Nathan for bringing up, esp since I meant to add to thread! We do address in paper- in short, likely both treatment and selection effects but can’t disentangle much here. If treatment, hopefully bodes well for future efforts to teach these skills! Lmk if you need a copy

[Lucy Chen @chenlucy8]

@A_Schwa @JMichaelMcW @HMSHCP @HarvardHBS @HarvardMITmdphd @NIHAging @NIGMS Agree! Limited in what we could tackle to answer both Qs. Patients of chiefs were slightly more likely to report that their doctor spent enough time with them - but would be cool to have data to see if the length of actual time corresponds, or to better measure productivity!

[Michael McWilliams @JMichaelMcW]

Info about physician quality held by the profession as an underused resource

In residency we pick exemplars (chiefs) & deliberately repurpose them to make us all better

But we don't do that in practice - think about that...

New paper w/ @chenlucy8 (I predict a future chief...)

[Lucy Chen @chenlucy8]

@ml_barnett Thanks @ml_barnett! Means a lot from you - an author of cool studies!

[Lucy Chen @chenlucy8]

This is just the start of a research agenda on physician quality & excited to hear thoughts. Grateful that my 1st dissertation paper is out. Speaking of exemplars, I learned an absolute ton from @JMichaelMcW! Thanks to @HMSHCP @HarvardHBS @HarvardMITmdphd @NIHAging @NIGMS 🧵/🧵

[Lucy Chen @chenlucy8]

Importantly, we aren't suggesting just identifying high scorers on pt experiences (or insert metric of choice). Quality measurement is full of limitations! But perhaps including some subjective info from trusted colleagues can help pave a new approach to physician quality. 7/🧵

[The Harvard/MIT MD-PhD Program @HarvardMITmdphd]

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[Robert Huckman @robert_huckman]

Interested in working with great colleagues and great health claims a data? Send us your application! Harvard Business School: Research Computing Database Analyst https://t.co/9xPqG9eI2p

[Susan Rice Archived @AmbRice46]

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