Evaluative Clinical Sciences
A powerful catalyst for change, the academic discipline of evaluative clinical sciences, founded at Dartmouth Medical School, is transforming the practice of medicine and demanding accountability of health care systems-seeking excellence and value for patients and for employers who provide benefits. What began at Dartmouth nearly three decades ago as an effort to improve the region's health care is now transforming the American medical landscape. Medical care - the way we practice, teach, and consume it - is irrefutably being changed for the better by the faculty and students of The Dartmouth Institute.
From advising Congress on large-scale health care reform legislation to embedding patient decision-making in medical teaching and practice, to designing nationally-significant quality improvement studies, TDI is helping to restructure health care as we know it.