June 2013 American Way Magazine - page 18

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16 JUNE 01, 2013 AA.COM/AMERICANWAY
Since 1895, when the tournament began, the vastma-
jority of Open tournaments have been held at private
clubs—members-only redoubts likeMerionGolf Club
(www.meriongolfclub.com),outsidePhiladelphia,wherethis
month’sOpenwill be staged. Itmakes foranoddcontrast:
an“open”competitionatavenueclosedtotheeverydaygolfer.The
goodnews:That’sabout tochange. Starting insummer2014, four
of thenext sixOpenswillbeheldatpubliccourses.First in thero-
tation ishistoric PINEHURSTNO. 2 ( www.pinehurst.com)inNorth
Carolina, followedby CHAMBERSBAY (www.chambersbaygolf.com)
inUniversityPlace,Wash., amunicipal coursewith the lookand
feel of aScottish links. In2017, theOpenwill shift to ERINHILLS
(www.erinhills.com),onrollingterraininruralErin,Wis.,beforeland-
ingtwoyears laterat PEBBLEBEACHGOLFLINKS (www.pebblebeach
.com)inCalifornia,themostfamouspubliclayoutofthemall.These
world-classcoursesaresuretogivetheworld’sbestplayersarunfor
theirmoney.Andbecauseanyonecanplaythem,they’llgivegolfers
everywheresomething to look forward tooutsideofwatching the
U.S.OpenonTV.—”•–—˜™š–
ChambersBay
PinehurstNo. 2
ErinHills
Designedwith
discerninggolfers
inmind, STITCH’s
collectionof
handcrafted
leatherhead
covershitsthe
sweetspotwhere
formandfunction
meet.Theirretro-
chic look,evoking
elementsof
Americana(from
vintagespeedsters
tosailingregattas),
placesthehead
coversonthe
cuttingedgeof
fashion.Andtheir
sleek,slimfitis
consistentwith
today’strend
toward lightweight
clubsandbags.
Talkaboutahole-
in-one. to,
www.stitchgolf.com
—J.S.
BUY
THIS
{ HEALTH + EDUCAT ION }
Funding theChange
Rapidchanges in
health care in the
UnitedStates not
onlyaect patients
— they challenge
thewayuniversities
trainour future
physicians. This
past January, the
AMERICANMEDICAL
ASSOCIATION
(AMA) announced
“AcceleratingChange
inMedical Education,”
a$10million
competitive-grant
initiativedesigned
tobridge thegap in
howphysicians are
trainedand theever-
evolvinghealth-care
system.
The incoming
president of the
AMA, Dr. Ardis
D. Hoven, says,
“With this exciting
initiative, we
aim to align the
medical education
of todaywith the
health-care needs
of tomorrow. The
AMA looks forward
to facilitating
the innovative
structural change
that engenders a
significant redesign
of undergraduate
medical education
that canbe
duplicated in
medical schools
across the country.”
According to the
AMA,money from
the initiativewill fund
eight to 10projects
atAmericanmedical
schoolsover thenext
fiveyears. These
projectswill, among
other things, develop
newmethods for
measuringand
assessingkey
competencies, and
promoteways to
achievepatient
safety, performance
improvement and
patient-centered,
team-based care.
Some 115medical
schools submitted
proposals to receive
the funds, and in
March theAMA
announced that it
hadnarrowed the
fieldof applicants
to31. Those schools
were thenasked
to submitmore
comprehensive
project plans. The
final eight to 10
acceptedproposals
will be announced
inChicago June 15
to 19 at theAMA’s
semiannual policy-
makingmeeting.
“More than80
percent ofmedical
schools submitted
innovative ideas to
transformmedi-
cal education. This
outstanding response
underscores the
medical-education
community’s recogni-
tionof theneed
for changeand its
yearning to imple-
mentmeaningful in-
novation,”Dr. Hoven
explains.
Formore
information
on“Accelerating
ChangeinMedical
Education,”visit
www.changemeded
.org
—STEPHEN LYONS