The academic health centers in the United States, their component schools of medicine, osteopathy, dentistry, nursing, pharmacy, optometry, public health and veterinary medicine, as well as their teaching hospitals, have developed as major and essential c...

Summarizes two speeches. William W. Stead offers three scenarios illustrating typical future interactions of consumers with a medical system based on informatics and information technology and then considers implications for academic medicine. Valerie Florance discusses a program that is exploring ways medical schools and teaching ...

Treatment Center is verified by the American College of Surgeons and the American Burn Association � UI College of Medicine Paul Rothman, MD Associate VP, UI Health Care, and CEO, UI Hospitals and Clinics, internationally recognized academic medical center that includes: � University of Iowa Hospitals and ...

One of the most significant changes in US hospitals over the past decade has been the emergence of hospitalists as key providers of inpatient care. The number of hospitalists in both community and teaching hospitals is growing rapidly, and as the field burgeons, many are questioning where hospitalists should reside within the academic ...

It has been stated that academic medicine is in a worldwide crisis. Is this decline in hospital academic practice a predictable consequence of modern clinical practice with its emphasis on community and outpatient-based services as well as a corporate health-care ethos or does it relate to innate problems in the ...

As the marketplace for academic positions in emergency medicine grows more competitive, it becomes increasingly important for residents who desire academic careers to distinguish themselves during their residency. This report attempts to outline a road map for department and residency program leaders to help their houseofficers become ...

Academic medicine is once more face-to-face with health care reform, which this time is being seriously debated and will at least be the subject of legislation. There is the possibility that the coming changes could unintentionally injure academic medicine; that is why academic ...

Academic Teaching Hospitals Steven Goldstein President & CEO, Strong Memorial Hospital & Highland Hospital Eugene P. Orringer, M.D. Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs Professor of Medicine University of North Faculty Eugene P. Orringer, M.D. The Objective of Learning Objectives Barbara ...

The American College of Physicians, Society of Hospital Medicine, and Society of General Internal Medicine convened a multi-stakeholder consensus conference in July 2007 to address the quality gaps in the transitions between inpatient and outpatient settings and to develop consensus standards for these transitions. Over 30 ...

US medical care reflects the priorities and influence of academic health centers. This paper describes the leadership role assumed by one academic health center, the State University at Buffalo's School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and its eight affiliated hospitals, to serve its region by promoting shared ...

The processes by which academic medicine will train the next generation of physicians and develop new knowledge have brought to the forefront the relationship between academic medical centers and community hospitals and practitioners. Over the past thirteen years, the Harvard Medical School Joint Center for ...

The Japanese health care system has been highly praised for its universal access, freedom of patient choice, maintenance of a private system, and creative funding. Japanese citizens enjoy general good health, low infant mortality, and long life expectancy. Nevertheless, aspects of Japanese medical education, both graduate and undergraduate, and the structure of academic ...

Addressing the need for updated teaching hospital facilities is one of the most significant issues that an academic medical center faces. The authors describe the process they underwent in deciding to build a new facility at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC). Initial issues included whether or not the teaching hospital ...

In 2009, the entire clinical faculty of the Department of Neurosurgery of the University of Louisville School of Medicine elected to become employees of a nearby community hospital. This took place in the context of the financial burden of caring for the indigent, declining reimbursement, clinical demands for neurosurgical coverage of a level 1 trauma ...

The findings in the Institute of Medicine's Future of Emergency Care reports, released in June 2006, emphasize that emergency physicians work in a fragmented system of emergency care with limited interhospital and out-of-hospital care coordination, too few on-call specialists, minimal disaster readiness, strained inpatient resources, and inadequate ...

The interface between established values of academic medicine and the trend toward inpatient amenities units requires close examination. Opinions of such units can be polarized, reflecting traditional reservations about the ethical dilemma of offering exclusive services only to an elite patient group. An amenities unit was developed at the University of ...

Major changes in academic health centers (AHCs) may not be confined to the United States. Both Partners HealthCare System in Boston and University College London School of Medicine/University College Hospital Trust in London have recently undergone mergers, downsizing, and cost cutting on unprecedented scales. A comparison of the ...

While the National Library of Medicine created the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM) as a network to provide medical and health information, historically few nonmedical academic libraries have participated. University medical libraries and hospital libraries have been the major focus of the Network. ...

Problems facing health professions schools and academic health centers that can damage health were identified by the Southern Regional Education Board, along with recommendations for action within the states. Nine problems for these schools and centers concern: declining applications and enrollments for dental schools and many schools of pharmacy, nursing, and allied health ...

This is the first of two articles in this issue of Academic Medicine that, together, report the author's findings from his study of the attempts by the leaders of Mount Sinai and New York University (NYU) academic health centers in New York City to merge their medical schools and hospitals, and the failure of those ...

Academic hospitality is a feature of academic life. It takes many forms. It takes material form in the hosting of academics giving papers. It takes epistemological form in the welcome of new ideas. It takes linguistic form in the translation of academic work into other languages, and it takes ...

BackgroundThis study implemented and evaluated a point-of-care, wireless Internet access using smart phones for information retrieval during daily clinical rounds and academic activities of internal medicine residents in a community hospital. We did the project to assess the feasibility of using smart phones as an alternative to reach ...

External pressures continue to be exerted on hospitals to prioritize programs that minimize costs and improve the safety of medication use. Clinical pharmacologists are in an ideal position to provide leadership for such programs. At academic health centers, an added dimension is the exposure of physicians-in-training to the practical application of ...

King/Drew Medical Center is the only minority academic medical center west of the Mississippi River. As a result of the McCone Commission investigation into the Watts Riots of 1965, it was initially established as the Martin Luther King Hospital. Upon the establishment of Drew University in the mid-70s, the name change was made to recognize the existence ...

King/Drew Medical Center is the only minority academic medical center west of the Mississippi River. As a result of the McCone Commission investigation into the Watts Riots of 1965, it was initially established as the Martin Luther King Hospital. Upon the establishment of Drew University in the mid-70s, the name change was made to recognize the existence ...

... The hospital ships' mission(s), recent ... Descriptors : *SHIPS, *MILITARY MEDICINE, *MEDICAL SERVICES, *HOSPITALS, *NAVAL ...

... The role of the hospital ship as an intermediate ... Descriptors : *NAVAL VESSELS, *MILITARY MEDICINE, *HOSPITALS, *PSYCHIATRY, DIAGNOSIS ...

... DISEASES, CONTROL, DIAGNOSIS(MEDICINE), THERAPY, HOSPITALS, EPIDEMIOLOGY, MICROBIOLOGY, PREVENTIVE MEDICINE, HYGIENE ...

... SERVICES, DEFENSE SYSTEMS, HEALTH, MEDICINE, PLANNING, MILITARY MEDICINE, CIVILIAN PERSONNEL, HOSPITALS, INSURANCE. ...

1. The intended fusion of the university hospitals Marburg and Giessen in the state of Hessia is "a marriage under pressure with uncalculated risk" (Spiegel 2005). In the present political and financial situation it hardly appears to be avoidable. From the point of the view of the faculty of medicine in Marburg it is difficult to understand, that the ...

Despite the fundamental transformations occurring in health care, academic medicine can maintain, and actually enhance, its value to society. But to do so will require a shared vision of where academic medicine should go. The author offers his own vision, one that includes (1) establishing true partnerships between ...

This paper describes work in progress to develop an Information Technology (IT) model and supporting information system for the evaluation of clinical teaching in the Emergency Medicine (EM) Department of North Shore University Hospital. In the academic hospital setting student physicians, i.e. residents, and ...

For the last 100 years, U.S. medical schools and teaching hospitals have convinced the public that they can be counted on to provide excellent care, train the next generation of medical professionals, advance research, and anchor their communities. Public support expressed through government funding has been correspondingly generous. But those who run ...

Bannister will serve as pro-Dean on this committee; (ii) School of Medicine (St James's Hospital) � Lecturer in Management Memorandum and Proposal from the Dean of Graduate Studies, dated 31 October 2006. 8. Academic in Human Nutrition (1-year contract) Dean of Health Sciences Dr N P Kennedy Professor P W N Keeling Dr K

Brooke Army Medical Center (BAMC) is a 450-bed tertiary care hospital with a multi-fold mission to provide comprehensive patient care, medical education, and research. The implementation of managed care has caused BAMC's focus to shift from an academic ro...

PROBLEM BEING ADDRESSED: The continuing shortage of rural family physicians in Canada. PURPOSE OF PROGRAM: To further develop training for rural family practice so that adequate numbers of rural family physicians will be appropriately prepared. MAIN COMPONENTS OF PROGRAM: All family medicine residents should have the opportunity to experience the joys and challenges of rural ...

... PREVENTIVE MEDICINE, STUDENTS, DISEASES, MEDICINE, MALARIA, HOSPITALS, HEPATITIS, VACCINES, MEASLES VIRUSES. ...

Richard T. West, IAIMS (Integrated Advanced Information Management Systems) Program Officer at the National Library of Medicine for 13 years, reflects on the origin, development, effectiveness, and future of IAIMS efforts. He dwells on the changes that have taken place as the concept of IAIMS has evolved from a technology-based to an organization-based level of ...

), the major organization for the industry. Nutrition and Hospitality are distinct programs from one another Ecology is proposing to separate the existing Department of Nutrition and Hospitality to their own single academic units. We will rename the Nutrition side, Nutrition Science and Dietetics, and Hospitality

Contents: Federal support for academic health centers -- historical perspective; Medical schools; Teaching hospitals; Veterans administration hospitals; Other health professional schools; Role of academic health center administration.

Plastic surgery has passed through a very positive evolution in the last decades on the solid fundament of constantly developing academic plastic surgery. Aim of this paper is an objective evaluation of the current status of academic plastic surgery regarding research topics, currently available ressources and scientific outcome based on a questionnaire. ...

ACADEMIC EMERGENCY MEDICINE 2011; 18:981-987 � 2011 by the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine ABSTRACT: Objectives:? Due to the rapid growth in academic emergency departments over the past 20?years, recent significant changes in leadership have occurred. To prepare for future ...

"Penn Bioengineering Graduate Group offers courses of study in several areas of concentration leading to the Ph.D. degree in Bioengineering. Information about faculty, research programs, courses, and resources at Penn for advanced graduate studies in bioengineering can be found on this website. The Ph.D. program is designed to train individuals for academic, government, or ...

Academic-service partnerships are being touted as a solution to workforce problems. "Traditional" approaches to these partnerships have been directed primarily at academic and hospital institutions for mutual benefit. An expanded model of partnership possibilities is presented through three detailed exemplars that include population ...

Objective: The authors describe curricular modifications created in response to the changing culture of medical education, health care systems, academic medicine, and generational differences. The authors propose a model child psychiatry inpatient curriculum that is sustainable within a community teaching hospital in the 21st century. ...

Research needs innovative ideas, time for design, performance and discussion of projects, and freedom in the daily routine. Integrating the individual working concepts in the given profile of the university hospital and the national research system requires a suitable institutional framework and individual academic mentoring. German university ...

With growing constraints on government spending, policy makers are investing in comparative effectiveness research (CER) to attempt to bring the power of science to bear on the problems of suboptimal outcomes and high cost in the U.S. health care system. This commitment of resources to CER reflects confidence that better evidence can help clinicians and patients make better decisions, consistent ...

1 Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine EXTENUATING CIRCUMSTANCES AFFECTING ACADEMIC of consideration of extenuating circumstances affecting students' academic performance. 1 Principles The policy extenuating circumstances in mitigation of poor academic performance should receive a fair hearing

ABSTRACTOBJECTIVETo examine the practice patterns and clinical and academic roles of family physicians who have care of the elderly training.DESIGNCross-sectional survey.SETTING Family medicine practices or specialized geriatric services programs.PARTICIPANTS Fifty-two family physicians, surveyed in 2005 and 2006, identified as having 6 or 12 months� ...

The educational system of Switzerland is described, and guidelines concerning the academic placement of students who wish to study in U.S. institutions are provided. After describing primary and secondary education, attention is directed to teacher training, tertiary education, and training in the health fields. Specific considerations include: academic ...

Medical schools and teaching hospitals have been hit particularly hard by the financial crisis affecting health care in the United States. To compete financially, many academic medical centers have recruited wealthy foreign patients and established luxury primary care clinics. At these clinics, patients are offered tests supported by little evidence of ...

There have been few reports published in English on emergency medicine (EM) in Japan; the main reason for this is that the concept of EM was different in Japan from that in western countries. In the 1960s, legislation was passed in Japan that implemented emergency medical services, and emergency hospitals were designated by the government. There were no ...

... Descriptors : *MILITARY MEDICINE, *MEDICAL SERVICES, *HOSPITALS, ORGANIZATIONS, MANAGEMENT, HEALTH, ARMY FACILITIES ...

... DEOXYRIBONUCLEIC ACIDS, SAMPLING, HOSPITALS, BONE MARROW, BLOOD, LABELED SUBSTANCES, DONORS(MEDICINE). ...

... and the new Fort Belvoir Community Hospital (FBCH ... HOSPITALS, *MILITARY MEDICINE, COMMUNITIES, CONSTRUCTION, ORGANIZATIONAL ...

... beneficiaries, the Fort Carson Community Hospital staff wanted ... SERVICES, ARMY FACILITIES, MEDICINE, HOSPITALS, HEALTH, COMMUNITIES ...

... hospital's committee coordination and integrative efforts; and ... RESOURCE MANAGEMENT, ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL, MILITARY MEDICINE. ...

... of obstetric services at Womack Army Community Hospital. ... MEDICAL SERVICES, ARMY FACILITIES, MEDICINE, HOSPITALS, NORTH CAROLINA ...

SCIENCE HAS MANY Western and Eastern historical roots. All of these contributed to the body of academic literature. One of the most important aspects of scientific progress is educational institutions, including hospitals, schools, and libraries. Some of these institutions may offer an identity for a city, as well as contribute to its development. ...

The education mission of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is to train health professionals to benefit VA and the United States. One approach for achieving that mission, along with VA's research and clinical missions, was the establishment of Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Centers (GRECCs) in 1975. These were developed at VA hospital sites that had existing ...

The education mission of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is to train health professionals to benefit VA and the United States. One approach for achieving that mission, along with VA's research and clinical missions, was the establishment of Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Centers (GRECCs) in 1975. These were developed at VA hospital sites that had existing ...

BackgroundConflicts of interest (COI) in research are an important emerging topic of investigation and are frequently cited as a serious threat to the integrity of human participant research.ObjectiveTo study financial conflicts of interest (FCOI) policies for individual investigators working in Canadian academic health centers.DesignSurvey instrument containing 61 items ...

At the fourth meeting of the AAMC's Forum on the Future of Academic Medicine in December 1997, Dr. Paul Griner and Dr. David Blumenthal discussed findings from their in-depth case studies of how ten academic medical centers (AMCs) were responding to the changing, more competitive marketplace and what these AMCs were doing to sustain ...

ObjectiveThis report aims to illustrate the history and current status of Japanese emergency medical services (EMS), including development of the specialty and characteristics adapted from the U.S. and European models. In addition, recommendations are made for improvement of the current systems.MethodsGovernment reports and academic papers were reviewed, along with the ...

During the 1960's and 70's, academic medicine in Canada grew rapidly in size and scope and a number of research and clinical programs of the highest quality emerged. During the 1980's not only was this impetus not sustained, in some disciplines and regions there was likely a reversal of previous success. These adverse effects were produced by continued ...

The AAMC's Increasing Women's Leadership Project Implementation Committee examined four years of data on the advancement of women in academic medicine. With women comprising only 14% of tenured faculty and 12% of full professors, the committee concludes that the progress achieved is inadequate. Because academic ...

ObjectiveTo assess academic emergency medicine (EM) chairs� perceptions of quality improvement (QI) training programs.MethodsA voluntary anonymous 20 item survey was distributed to a sample of academic chairs of EM through the Association of Academic Chairs of Emergency Medicine. Data was ...

The bibliography includes citations to the general literature of health care technology assessment and the diffusion of technological innovations in medicine, and it specifically emphasizes and focuses on hospital management of high-cost technologies and ...

The Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology (CIMIT), is a consortium of nonprofit Massachusetts-based institutions led by Massachusetts General Hospital and includes Brigham and Women's Hospital, Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...

The Arabian conquests during and after the 7th century led to a spread of Islam as well as the consequential influence of theology on health through the teachings of the Qur'an (Koran). Although traditional medicine was widely accepted and used, the character of early aggrandisement of Arabic medicine involved a facility for adapting and absorbing ...

Show All Titles for ACADEMIC (41). TUFTS/VET/CCM (1) Center for Conservation Medicine, Tufts Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, Tufts University ...

Children who require emergency care have unique needs, especially when emergencies are serious or life-threatening. The majority of ill and injured children are brought to community hospital emergency departments (EDs) by virtue of their geography within communities. Similarly, emergency medical services (EMS) agencies provide the bulk of out-of-hospital ...

ACADEMIC EMERGENCY MEDICINE 2011; 18:830-835 � 2011 by the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine ABSTRACT: Objectives:? The objective was to investigate the prognostic value of plasma lactate in patients with acute pulmonary embolism (PE). Methods:? This was a retrospective study at the emergency department ...

Changes in the organization, financing, and delivery of health care services have prompted medical school leaders to search for new organizational models for linking medical schools, faculty practice groups, affiliated hospitals, and insurers-models that better meet the contemporary challenges of governance and decision making in academic ...

Academic medical centers (AMCs; i.e., teaching hospitals) play a vital role in the U.S. health care system by pursuing a four-part, synergistic mission of clinical care, research, education, and community health. Historically, AMCs have used margins from clinical care to subsidize the cost of the other three missions. As a result, the clinical cost ...

Medical schools and teaching hospitals are experiencing more frequent turnover of department chairs. Loss of a department chair creates instability in the department and may have a negative effect on the organization at large. Interim leadership of academic departments is common, and interim chairs are expected to immediately demonstrate skills and ...

... Accession Number : ADA424521. Title : What is the Academic Review Process and How Is It Working at the Naval Hospital Corps School. ...

Cancer doctors and nurses are clustered in the metropolitan areas of Virginia. However, cancer patients are found throughout the state, and cancer mortality time trends are worse in the rural areas. Efforts to recruit cancer physicians and nurses to rural hospitals have been unsuccessful due to the practice characteristics, educational isolation, and economic disincentives. ...

In the last year there has been a great deal of public debate about homeopathy, the system of alternative medicine whose main principles are that like cures like and that potency increases relative to dilution. The House of Commons Select Committee on Science and Technology concluded in November 2009 that there is no evidence base for homeopathy, and agreed with some ...

We describe a clinical information system for hospital-based ambulatory care implemented in the context of the institution's IAIMS Phase III effort. Key features of this application are physician data entry to maintain summary clinical profiles that include medication lists, problem lists, and preventive care, and integration with other components of the Clinical Information ...

This paper is one part of a continuing study to determine the availability of library service to physicians in southeastern Michigan not associated with academic institutions. The institutional affiliations of the 800 osteopathic physician community of the area were identified. As the availability of library service at these institutions was known, the conclusion is patent ...

BACKGROUND: As part of the growth of emergency medical care in our state, our university-based emergency medicine practice developed a network of affiliated emergency department (ED) practices. The original practices were academic and based on a faculty practice model; more recent network development incorporated a community practice model less focused on ...

... AULIMP - Air University Library Index to Military ... Author : GENERAL HOSPITAL CORP BOSTON MA. ... The Center for Integration of Medicine and ...

Evidence-based medicine, the new practice paradigm, is rapidly replacing medicine by authority, the traditional paradigm. In 1993, we introduced evidence-based practice into our Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences at San Francisco General Hospital, University of California, San Francisco. We orient all ...

This is the second of two articles in this issue of Academic Medicine that, together, report the author's findings from his study of the attempt by the leaders of Mount Sinai and New York University (NYU) medical centers in New York City to merge their medical schools and hospitals, and the failure of those attempts. After the ...

This essay examines how and why American models were applied in the reorganization of West German hospitals and medical research centers in the post-war period. After discussing why American clinical medical centers turned into model institutions over the last century or so, a case study is discussed in some detail: the Kerckhoff Institute for cardiovascular research in Bad ...

The writer of this retrospective essay witnessed his first open chest operation during the academic year 1928-29 while an intern in general surgery at Lakeside Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio. The operative procedure was probably the first of its kind to be performed at that teaching hospital, and it involved the excision of a mediastinal ...

Possessed of both instinct and intellect, physician teachers are required to be respectful exemplars of professionalism and interpersonal ethics in all environments, be it the hospital, classroom, or outside the educational setting. Sometimes, even while protecting the sanctity of the teacher-student relationship, they may surreptitiously find themselves in the throes of ...

The author reviews the growth of managed care and its transforming effect on academic medical centers. He then maintains that in this time of fundamental changes and stress, academic medical centers should not only attend to the organization and financing of the clinical enterprise and the enhancement of biomedical research capacity, but also ask how ...

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: With the use of medicines being a broad and extensive part of health management, mechanisms to ensure quality use of medicines are essential. Drug usage evaluation (DUE) is an evidence-based quality improvement methodology, designed to improve the quality, safety and cost-effectiveness of drug use. The purpose of this paper is to ...

BackgroundWith the use of medicines being a broad and extensive part of health management, mechanisms to ensure quality use of medicines are essential. Drug usage evaluation (DUE) is an evidence-based quality improvement methodology, designed to improve the quality, safety and cost-effectiveness of drug use. The purpose of this paper is to describe a ...

All academic health centers (AHCs) are threatened by the complexity of health care reform and by the speed with which it is occurring. We have been forced in all areas of our academic and clinical life to reassess the way in which we have traditionally operated. We must, in fact, do more than reassess. We must change fundamentally. This is true whether one ...

... Departments of 2Cardiothoracal Surgery and 3Radiology, Academic Hospital Maastricht, Maastricht ... grid of magnetic tags was attached to the heart. ...

... Title : Improving the Discharge Process to Optimize Patient Throughput in an Academic Teaching Hospital and Level I Trauma Center. ...

... computer. Programs nationwide offer free or low-cost laptops for use in the hospital; check with your ...

... 25 separate focus groups with attending physicians, nurses, residents, patients, and hospital administrators at 5 academic medical centers in a ...

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... Descriptors : *PROSTATE CANCER, *PREVENTIVE MEDICINE, CHOLESTEROL, HOSPITALS, EPIDEMIOLOGY, GROWTH(PHYSIOLOGY ...

... MILITARY MEDICINE, *BACTERIA, HOSPITALS, SOUP, DIFFUSION, IN VITRO ANALYSIS, TETRACYCLINES, MILITARY PERSONNEL ...

... GENERAL), RATES, CLINICAL MEDICINE, PATIENTS, HOSPITALIZATIONS, REPRODUCIBILITY, NATURAL HISTORY, INFRASTRUCTURE ...

... Descriptors : (*MILITARY MEDICINE, COSTS), MILITARY BUDGETS, NAVAL PERSONNEL, MEDICAL PERSONNEL, TRAINING, HOSPITALS ...

� Neuropathology � Sleep medicine and polysomnography � Subspecialty outpatient clinics AFFILIATED HOSPITALS West

... EQUIPMENT, SURGERY, DENTISTRY, OPHTHALMOLOGY, HOSPITALS, IMMUNITY, DISEASES, TREPONEMA PALLIDUM, NEISSERIACEAE ...