... Accession Number : ADA372341. Title : Academic Medical Centers: A Prescription for Success in an Era of Managed Care and Capitation. ...
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... Accession Number : ADA309230. Title : US Military Academic Medical Centers: Crown Jewels or White Elephants? Descriptive ...
... as a public service by the University of Maryland Medical System, a regional health care delivery system ... includes an academic medical center (the University of Maryland Medical Center in downtown Baltimore) as well as ...
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... 25 separate focus groups with attending physicians, nurses, residents, patients, and hospital administrators at 5 academic medical centers in a ...
Research article Integrating complementary and alternative medicine into academic medical centers: Experience and perceptions of nine leading centers in North America
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An overview is presented of techniques and models brought into academic medical centers. Emphasis is placed on studies in the literature and projects underway at hospitals and universities. Systems analysis and systems theory are discussed as they relate ...
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An analysis was accomplished of all inpatient medication errors at a military academic medical center during the year 2000, based on the causes of medication errors as described by current research in the field. The results of this analysis, which showed ...
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.
Hospitalists are physicians whose medical practice focuses on general medical inpatient care. In the past decade, the number of practicing hospitalists has soared, and hospitalist programs have been established at both community hospitals and academic medical centers. As hospitalists ...
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... to Academic Medical Centers Using Video Improved Hepatitis C Outcomes Press Release Date: June 1, 2011 Widely ... feedback helped ensure that patients treated for Hepatitis C in local communities did as well as patients ...
Managed care is the most important change in American medicine since medicine organized along modern lines at the beginning of the twentieth century. Civilian academic medical centers, the crown jewels of twentieth century medicine, will become so disadva...
Kaiser Permanente can be seen as a new model for academic dermatology. We describe this model from within Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center. PMID:19951649
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This article presents an historical review of the organization known as Student Health Services at Academic Medical Centers (SHSAAMc). The authors discuss characteristics of health service directors as well as the history of meetings, discussion, and leadership. The focus of the group is the healthcare needs of health professions ...
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... Characteristics of Traditional Academic Medical Centers Managed Care Goals ... Kuttner, R. (1999). Managed Care and Medical Education. ...
in 1931, not only provided coordinated medical and surgical care to private patients with moderate incomes, Duke University Medical Center has evolved into an even broader health care institution, one poised academic medical center where patients are referred almost ...
, opened in 1931, not only provided coordinated medical and surgical care to private patients with moderate Medical Center has evolved into an even broader health care institution, one poised to meet the challenges of health care delivery in the twenty-first century. No longer solely a traditional academic ...
The Institute of Medicine, in its 2001 report Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century, highlighted patient-centered care as an area for the development of quality measures. Since then, medical centers across the country have incorporated patient-centered modalities in their healthcare ...
Offers suggestions to help medical schools, so often subsumed in Academic Medical Centers, rediscover their unique reasons for existence and distinguish their core missions from core businesses. Calls for mission-based management and mission-based budgeting and discusses the role of medical ...
Architectural, administrative, and educational aspects of the design of medical centers are explored. Based on the historical evolution of health care as a university responsibility, academic health science centers are expected to foster the team approach...
Decreased public funding, a competitive healthcare market, and higher patient care costs have been blamed for the present financial challenges that confront academic health centers. The authors examined the costs associated with graduate medical education, particularly, indirect medical education expenses in the ...
Reporting lines for directors of student health centers (SHCs) at colleges and universities are a matter of continuing interest for those of us who must follow them. SHC directors at institutions with academic medical centers face a greater number of reporting choices that also have the potential of being more ...
This report describes a clinic run by a federally-qualified health center and an academic medical center. The clinic expands the community's primary care capacity, combining advantages of big and small settings, and of its dual affiliation. Survey data suggest the clinic prevents health care delays and lowers ...
The American Medical Informatics Association's Annual Fall Symposium is the premier medical informatics meeting drawing nearly 2,000 attendees from every state, 36 countries and all of the major academic medical centers across the United States. The progr...
The mission statements of academic medical centers call on them to accomplish many goals. This often leads to conflicting choices when selecting activities and establishing policies. When individual faculty members are expected to divide work time to meet research, teaching and clinical needs, careful planning and disciplined decisions ...
Academic medical centers are vital elements of the American healthcare system and must be preserved. They have recently grown much more complex, diversified and financially threatened. Communications networking is an essential ingredient in permitting academic medical ...
Academic medical center libraries are moving towards publishing electronically, utilizing networked technologies, and creating digital libraries. The catalyst for this movement has been the Web. An analysis of academic medical center library Web pages was undertaken to ...
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... This conclusion also was shared in an accompanying editorial by Martin Offringa, Consultant Neonatologist, Emma Children's Hospital, Academic Medical Center ...
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UCI Medical Center continues to be an unparalleled resource in the region and the nation, offering an advanced level of health care only available at an academic hospital. The latest treatments, comprehensive outpatient services, new diagnostic techniques, as well as some of the most highly qualified medical ...
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The foundation of endovascular procedures by nephrologists was laid in the private practice arena. Because of political issues such as training, credentialing, space and equipment expenses, and co-management concerns surrounding the performance of dialysis-access procedures, the majority of these programs provided care in an outpatient vascular access center. On the basis of ...
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 ...
We compared the implementation of computerized physician order entry (CPOE) in two Dutch hospitals, one being an academic medical center and the other a large regional non-academic hospital. Both implemented the TDS7000 system that was running on the same computer, located in the computing department of the ...
During the past 10 years, there have been a number of large health care mergers in which at least one partner has been an academic medical center. This review summarizes the definitions, attributes needed for success, and reasons for failure of mergers. It then describes the various mergers and their outcomes and discusses the impact ...
Objective: To assess medical students' experience with a wide variety of health concerns and their perceptions of the impact of these health concerns on their academic performance. Methods: The National College Health Assessment (NCHA) was administered to all students enrolled at a single medical school during the spring term of 2005. ...
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...
The Association of American Medical Colleges conducted the study to determine the feasibility for broadening the application, utility and scope of the cost finding studies conducted by many academic health centers and individual institutions over the past...
Discusses problems with the present system of recognition for clinical educators in academic medical centers including the requirement for regional and national reputation, the lack of reliable measures of clinical and teaching excellence, and the lack of training opportunities. Suggested solutions include changes in promotion criteria ...
Factors affecting the optimal size of an integrated health care delivery system in an academic medical center are discussed, including: the institution's structure for survival; technology, innovation, and health care costs; and specific characteristics of the institution's education, research, and patient care missions. Several ...
We present a framework for understanding and developing an Information Technology (IT) infrastructure for human subject research. First, we review the process of clinical research in an academic medical center. Next, we describe the entities, roles, and functional relationships within the clinical research enterprise to define a ...
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 ...
Multidisciplinary research centers have multiplied in academic medical centers over the past decade and several recent reports have described their structure, strengths and limitations, and the difficulties that they may face. However, little attention has been paid to the role of a multidisciplinary ...
This study uses Henry Mintzberg's classification of ten work roles of managers, and narrows it down to four work roles which are most frequently performed by CEOs as they uphold academic medical centers' missions of providing quality medical education, research and patient care. Through principal component ...
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 ...
Disaster preparedness and disaster response should be a capability of all academic health centers. The authors explore the potential role and impact of academic medical centers (AMC)s in disaster response. The National Disaster Medical System and the evolution of disaster ...
Object Factors determining choice of an academic career in neurological surgery are unclear. This study seeks to evaluate the graduates of medical schools and US residency programs to determine those programs that produce a high number of graduates remaining within academic programs and the contribution of these graduates to ...
Unprecedented advances in biomedical research and the upheaval in health care economics have converged to cause seismic changes in the traditional organization of medical schools and academic health centers. This process is particularly evident in departments of internal medicine. The activities and functions of ...
An analysis is presented of 240 cases of litigation involving medical faculty, medical schools, and academic medical centers reported over the period 1950-1991. The number of reported cases increased dramatically over the study period in association with the expansion of the national ...
The interaction between pharmaceutical and device companies and hospitals and physicians has undergone significant transformation in the past few years due to the public's perception that bias may result when such relationships are not disclosed and monitored. Policies need to be written by medical centers and hospitals to preserve and retain the trust of ...
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Academic physicians face great economic challenges. There is therefore a growing need to increase the efficiency of academic practice. One potential target for improving the "business" of medicine is inpatient billing. Currently many academic centers use "yellow" cards for inpatient billing. This is an inefficient ...
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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 ...
This curriculum for a medical assistant program is designed for students interested in caring for the sick, injured, convalescent, or disabled under the direction of the family, physicians, and credentialed nurses. The curriculum is divided into 12 units: orientation to medical assisting; principles of medical ethics; risk management; ...
The purpose of this article is to share the vision of an academic health science center in creating a centralized academic and service Department of Health Informatics. To do this, we will present background on the institution, a brief discussion of informatics (including medical and health informatics), and then ...
A management information (MI) system for general and academic medical practices is imperative in a changing environment. Funded by a grant from the MGMA Academic Practice Assembly, EMPOWER is relevant to all types of medical practice. The software package supports financial/time allocation models, income/expense ...
In 2005, medical educators at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), began developing the Parnassus Integrated Student Clinical Experiences (PISCES) program, a year-long longitudinal integrated clerkship at its academic medical center. The principles guiding this new clerkship were continuity with ...
BACKGROUNDStudies of conflicts of interest in clinical research have focused on academic centers, but most clinical research takes place in nonacademic settings.OBJECTIVETo compare oversight and management of investigators� financial relationships in academic and nonacademic research settings.DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTSSurvey ...
Academic etiquette is an underexplored and underemphasized topic. Yet, a collegial atmosphere is essential to accomplish the missions of an academic medical center. Appropriate social, personal, and cultural behaviors are not only desirable, but they are also necessary to practice and emulate. As faculty in an ...
While physicians have historically held positions of leadership in academic medical centers, there is an increasing trend that physicians will not only guide the clinical, curriculum and scientific direction of the institution, but its business direction as well. Physicians are assuming a greater role in business decision making and ...
Understanding how medical malpractice occurs and is resolved is important to improving patient safety and preserving the viability of a physician's career in academic medicine. Every physician is likely to be sued by a patient, and how the physician responds can change his or her professional life. However, the principles of medical ...
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 ...
On January 12, 2010, a major earthquake in Haiti resulted in approximately 212 000 deaths, 300 000 injuries, and more than 1.2 million internally displaced people, making it the most devastating disaster in Haiti's recorded history. Six academic medical centers from the city of Chicago established an interinstitutional collaborative ...
... across the country. The NINDS supports The Vasculitis Clinical Research Consortium (VCRC), a network of academic medical centers, patient support organizations, and clinical research resources dedicated to conducting clinical research and improving ...
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Twenty-one research teams engaged in interdisciplinary biomedical research at a large academic medical center were studied for effects of organizational management structure on resource flows, roles, research climate, problem solving, communications, and ...
Areas of agreement/conflict between academic medical centers and investor owned corporations are considered. Academic medical centers are part of the university system, which is responsible for education, research, and the related public good (e.g., nurturing of ...
are installed. New street lights and pedestrian walkway lights are added as new park- ing areas and walkways are referred to the Derry Township Police for investigation. Victims of crime are encouraged to report Crisis Service. Victims of sexual assault and other serious crimes will be assisted in changing academ
This article describes the strategic planning process used by a major academic medical center to redesign the employee health service. The steps in the process are discussed and data demonstrating the success of the program redesign are presented. PMID:18983104
Since the acquisition of research skills and experience is pivotal to the success of general internists in an academic medical center, the model faculty development program at Cornell University was designed to teach post-graduate general internal medicin...
The project was carried out in a large, urban academic medical center with a repository of 15 years of data on 2.4 million patients seen in inpatient and outpatient areas. Electronic data included registration data, laboratory data, narrative ancillary re...
This study attempts to determine the impact of the Medicare Fee Schedule (MFS) on teaching physicians compared to nonteaching physicians and if these impacts varied across academic medical centers, other major teaching hospitals and minor teaching hospita...
Context: Referral bias reflecting the preferential hospital transfer of patients with intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) has been demonstrated as the major contributing factor for an observed high nonrisk-adjusted in-hospital crude acute stroke mortality rate at a rural academic medical center. Purpose: This study was done to assess the ...
Many postdoctoral fellows are considering an academic career at a medical school. In addition to conducting research, new faculty members need to learn effective teaching methodologies. This course will focus on good teaching practices, including basic strategies for developing and organizing a course.
With a long history as unique providers of health care, academic medical centers have been exempt from many of the troubles plaguing less distinguished health care organizations. But with the increasing dominance of managed care, academic medical centers are facing fierce ...
to acculturate trainees to the clinical environment, integrate medical principles into their research Research Center (GCRC) clinical study coupled with a rotation through the CTSC (Clinical and Translational requirements for conducting clinical research. #12;d) Hot Topics in Clinical Research Seminar Series and Journal
of patient care or academic performance. � Do not have romantic or sexual relationships with patients and in written communications. � Acknowledge your errors of omission and commission to colleagues and patients; if such a relationship seems to be developing, seek guidance and terminate the professional relationship. * 5. Awareness
In this article the authors report on how police-developed management concepts--Compstat and Intelligence-Led Policing--were successfully applied and used to advance organizational learning in a public safety function of an academic medical center. PMID:20229930
With the challenges of managed care capitation in academic medical centers the purpose of this study was to provide nurse/physician collaboration to enhance continuity of care, multidisciplinary team-based planning, expedited discharge, and assessment pos...
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Contents: Electrophysiological basis of cardiac arrhythmias with special emphasis on intra-myocardial reentry; Mechanisms of ventricular arrhythmias in acute myocardial ischemia; Computer modelling of cardiac arrhythmias; Life-threatening arrhythmias in t...
Academic medical centers serve an integral function in society in the training of physicians as well as the safety net provider for numerous patients that otherwise might not have access to healthcare. As resources continue to tighten and funding continues to be scarce, faculty accountability is under increased scrutiny. More ...
A joint cholesterol research venture between a University of Massachusetts medical center and a health maintenance organization, the Fallon Healthcare System, is described, focusing on issues arising from the two institutions' differing priorities and perspectives concerning health care and research. While such a collaborative arrangement can hold benefits ...
Bern Shen is the Chief Healthcare Strategist for Intel�s Digital Health group, Chairman of The Health Trust, a Trustee of the Center for Improving Medication Management, and a Clinical Assistant Professor in the UCSF Department of Clinical Pharmacy. Formerly double Board-Certified in internal medicine and emergency medicine, he practiced clinically for ...
After completing his PhD degree in biological sciences at Purdue University in 1975, Dr. Merritt received post-doctoral training at the German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany, and subsequently at the Cell Biology Department at Yale University Medical School. He began an academic career in cancer research at the Midwest ...
and subsequent ventilatory support in very low birth weight infants with respiratory distress syndrome. 2. Air intervals, independent of the infants respiratory efforts. Newer "pressure ventilators" can sense infants in infants as prelude to extubation to ensure adequate respiratory drive. If done for a prolonged time
The paper describes a prototype information environment designed to link network-based information resources in an integrated fashion and thus enhance the information capabilities of an academic medical center. The prototype was implemented on a single Macintosh computer to permit exploration of the overall "information architecture" ...
In an attempt to reduce the lengthy process of translating scientific findings into clinical practice, the United States and several European governments are making substantial investments in health information technology, comparative effectiveness research, and increased access to quality health care. New technologies-genomics in particular-are expected to usher in more cost-effective ...
In 2003, the Prior Health Sciences Library (Prior Library) at The Ohio State University (OSU) explored the possibility of providing specialized support to biomedical, nursing, and allied health researchers by adding a research librarian position. The decision came about after the Medical Library Association (MLA) investigated how libraries could provide enhanced support to ...
community- based medical schools. SIU School of Medicine will become the centerpiece of a community-based, regionally focused academic medical center of exceptional quality. In doing so, the School will maintain care delivery in the 21st century. The School will be a state medical school, ...
The evaluation of physician competency prior to issuing an initial medical license has been a fundamental responsibility of medical boards. Growing public expectation holds that medical boards will ensure competency throughout a physician's career. The Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) strongly supports the ...
Academic medical centers have fulfilled several of their missions with immense success but have failed to fulfill others. They have responded only modestly to the needs of the nation's underserved rural and urban communities. The author calls on academic medical centers to ...
Universities and academic medical centers have been increasing their focus on technology transfer and research commercialization. With this shift in focus, academic-industry ties have become prevalent. These relationships can benefit academic researchers and help then to transform their ...
Although much has been written about implementing mission-based management tools to help facilitate managing the primary academic missions at academic medical centers, there is surprisingly little written on standardized methodologies to align financial support across the academic and clinical ...
Objective: The authors review the background and contemporary strengths of Dean's Committee Veterans Affairs Medical Centers in the collaborative academic training of psychiatrists and psychologists. Methods: The authors discuss the problems and prospects of the current health care environment as it impacts the behavioral health ...
Abraham Flexner's focus on science in medical school curricula was not intended to exclude or marginalize the importance of service in training American physicians. The erosion of service in academic medicine in the century after his report was the result of forces as wide ranging as research priorities, health care financing, and industry's influence. The ...
Profound changes are occurring in the health care system, including a surfeit of physicians, cost containment, and competition. This article addresses the effects of these changes on the academic medical center. It recommends that the faculty of the future will be of two types--clinician-teachers and researcher-teachers--and outlines ...
The Miller School of Medicine of the University of Miami and Project Medishare, an affiliated not-for-profit organization, provided a large-scale relief effort in Haiti after the earthquake of 12 January 2010. Their experience demonstrates that academic medical centers in proximity to natural disasters can help deliver effective ...
This presentation shall discuss the major "internal" challenges to medical education--that is, challenges to achieving effective medical teaching that have arisen from the evolution of the science and practice of medicine. These issues are defined as "internal" in that they reflect the internal evolution of the profession and of ...
Since the fall of 2005, call volume at University of Southern California University Hospital of Los Angeles' call center has increased by nearly 50%. How? The hospital embarked on a long-term radio campaign to promote its presence as a premier academic medical center and to increase patient volume. PMID:17186899
Since 1976, with the foundation of the first private school of medicine in Puerto Rico, it was realized that governmental help was of the essence in order to maintain its accreditation from the official federal accrediting agency, the Liaison Committee on Medical Education. This special article summarizes the history of such endeavor, which progressively resulted in the ...
... Title : An Analysis of Medication Errors at the Military Medical Center: Implications for a Systems Approach for Error Reduction. ...
The use of Folio Views, a PC DOS based product for free text databases, is explored in three applications in an Integrated Academic Information System (IAIMS): (1) a telephone directory, (2) a grants and contracts newsletter, and (3) nursing care plans.
The use of Folio Views, a PC DOS based product for free text databases, is explored in three applications in an Integrated Academic Information System (IAIMS): (1) a telephone directory, (2) a grants and contracts newsletter, and (3) nursing care plans. PMID:1666967
at the margins; reconciling values of academic freedom and economic justice; alternative economic models-Columbia Columbia, MO Date Posted: Mar. 29th, 2006 http://medicine.AcademicKeys.com/redirect.php?6557-MD06060413 Children's National Medical Center Washington, DC Date Posted: Mar. 24th, 2006 http://medicine
Introduction: Medical education research is gaining recognition as scholarship within academic medical centers. This survey was conducted at a medium-sized academic medical center in the United States. The purpose of the study was to learn faculty ...
The mission, indeed the very existence, of the traditional academic health center is under siege. Changes in the financing and delivery of health care threaten the clinical revenue used to subsidize the tripartite mission of education, research, and patient care. Market practices, driven by the growth of managed care, will intensify the impact of declining ...
Given the considerable demographic changes occurring in the in the United States coupled with the urgent need for the field of medicine to continue to adapt to and better align with societal needs and expectations, a growing number of leaders in academic medicine have called for academic health centers to redouble their efforts to ...
OFFICE OF ACADEMIC RECORDS LEAVE - MEDICAL A Medical Leave provides time for students to receive frame student's medical leave is necessary. The Medical Leave begins the term following the student provider. Confirmation must include letterhead and time frame student's ...
Academic medicine and research universities have enjoyed a close relationship that has strengthened both, spawning an era of discovery and scholarship in medicine that has earned the U.S. academic medical enterprise a high level of public trust and a deserved leadership position in the world. However, changes in the financing of ...
The current medical education model is based on the assumption that students progress from a mastery of basic mechanisms of human structure and function to an understanding of a variety of pathologies and treatments using sound scientific principles. In this commentary, the authors suggest another approach to developing medical school curricula. Starting ...
Within academic medical centers, psychiatry, pediatrics, and certain other specialties of internal medicine carry a disproportionate responsibility for teaching but are least able to support teaching and research through clinical income. This article reviews the educational, research and clinical missions of an ...
The mission of an academic radiology department includes not only high-quality patient care, but also the educating of a broad variety of health care professionals, the conducting of research to advance the field, and volunteering service to the medical center and our professional societies. While funding is available for the research ...
PURPOSEFactors that influence hematology-oncology fellows' choice of academic medicine as a career are not well defined. We undertook a survey of hematology-oncology fellows training at cancer centers designated by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) to understand the factors fellows consider when making ...
Reference transactions in academic libraries have been on the decline since mid-1990. The Academic Library Survey from the National Center for Education Statistics shows an average drop of 25% in reference use from 1996-2004 with higher numbers at some institutions such as the University of Maryland which plummeted 47% (Martell, 2008). ...
The role of new technology in healthcare continues to expand from both the clinical and financial perspectives. Despite the importance of innovation, most academic medical centers do not have a clearly defined process for technology assessment. Recognizing the importance of new drugs, diagnostics and procedures in the care of patients ...
