Amid Social and Political Strife, Medical Schools Seek a Modern Approach

But the greater takeaway stayed with Shanta Zimmer through her residency, recurring throughout her career in different iterations of physician-patient collaboration, and eventually manifesting as a core component of her current job as senior associate dean of medical education at University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus: physicians must learn to treat the individual patient, not the disease, as they live in their communities.