Academic medicine : institutions, programs, & issues /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Association of American Medical Colleges
Other Authors: Jones, Robert F. (Robert Francis), 1945-, Smith, Jennifer I.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Association of American Medical Colleges, [1997]
Edition:Seventh edition.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Medical schools
  • Financial support
  • Faculties
  • Faculty practice organizations
  • Teaching hospitals
  • The academic-clinical enterprise
  • Medical student education
  • Applicants and enrollment
  • Tuition, financial assistance, and student debt
  • Student services
  • Educational program
  • Content of curriculum
  • Approaches to learning
  • Clinical education
  • Assessing clinical competence
  • Graduate medical education
  • Organization and program sponsorship
  • Application to residency programs
  • Residency positions and the physician workforce
  • Accreditation and licensure
  • Biomedical and behavioral research
  • Research support
  • Training of Ph.D. biomedical scientists
  • Clinical research
  • Training of physician-investigators
  • Research costs, infrastructure, and facilities
  • Social and professional issues
  • Use of animals in research
  • Scientific fraud and misconduct
  • Faculty conflicts of interest and commitment
  • Health services research
  • Health care services
  • VA medical centers
  • Health care financing
  • Medicare payments to teaching physicians
  • Support for academic infrastructure and the special costs of teaching hospitals
  • Support for the direct costs of graduate medical education
  • Future financing for the special missions of academic medicine
  • The Association of American Medical Colleges