The Metropolitan Academic Medical Center: Its Role In An Era Of Tight Money And Changing Expectations

by David E. Rogers, Eli Ginzberg

Overview

The Metropolitan Academic Medical Center provides a careful reexamination of developments of the past decade, offers insights for improving medical education, biomedical research, and health care services, and examines the fate of the medical academy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367309282
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/31/2024
Pages:	130
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

"David E. Rogers, M.D., was The Walsh McDermott University Professor of Medicine, Cornell University Medical School until his death in 1994. Eli Ginzberg, Ph.D. is Professor Emeritus, School of Business, Columbia University, and Director, The Eisenhower Center for the Conservation of Human Resources, Columbia University."

Table of Contents

Introduction — Overview — American Academic Health Centers and the Postmodern Era — Are Academic Medical Centers in Trouble? — Renewing the Covenant — Getting to Health Reform: Faulty Maps, Poor Directions — Integrating Community-Responsive Medicine into the Urban Safety-Net Hospital — Tensions in the Metropolitan Academic Medical Center — Academic Health Centers: Financing and Future Options — Federal Support of Biomedical Research 1945–1993 — Should Academic Medical Centers Relate to Regional Needs? — Summary — Cornell University Medical College

Editorial Reviews

Ten contributions from the December 1993 meeting in New York City explore such issues as the changing partnership between academic medical centers and government; the uncertainties of financing education, research, and patient care; the complexities of providing care for the poor; and the evolving initiatives that medical centers can take advantage of to ensure their role as quality care educators and providers. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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