Academic Medical Center R&D: A Call for Creating an Operational Research Infrastructure within the Academic Medical Center

Mentorship in an academic medical center.

AAIM is the largest academically focused specialty organization representing departments of internal medicine at medical schools and teaching hospitals in the United States and Canada. As a consortium of five organizations, AAIM represents department chairs and chiefs; clerkship, residency, and fellowship program directors; division chiefs; and academic and business administrators as well as ot...

Case study: a data warehouse for an academic medical center.

The clinical data repository (CDR) is a frequently updated relational data warehouse that provides users with direct access to detailed, flexible, and rapid retrospective views of clinical, administrative, and financial patient data for the University of Virginia Health System. This article presents a case study of the CDR, detailing its five-year history and focusing on the unique role of data...

Expanded community health center--academic medical center partnerships.

Preferred book formats in an academic medical center.

Learning more about when and why medical students, faculty, and clinical staff use e-books, as opposed to print books, is an expanding area of research for health sciences librarians. Several studies have highlighted the heavy use of health sciences titles in campus e-book collections [1–5] and the book format preferences of medical and other health sciences students [2, 6, 7]. A recent case st...

Three-Year Experience of an Academic Medical Center Ombuds Office

An ombuds is an individual who informally helps people or groups (visitors) resolve disputes and/or interpersonal conflicts as an alternative to formal dispute resolution mechanisms within an organization. Ombuds are nearly ubiquitous in many governmental, business, and educational settings but only recently have gained visibility at medical schools. Medical schools in the United States are inc...