An Academic Medical Center’s Learners’ Perceptions of Health Disparities

Medical student, physician, and public perceptions of health care disparities.

OBJECTIVES This study investigates first- and fourth-year medical students' perceptions about health care disparities and compares their perceptions with those of physicians and the public. METHODS We conducted an analysis of a national survey of medical students that included questions addressing unfair treatment of patients in the health care system based on insurance status, money, English...

Advertising by academic medical centers.

BACKGROUND Many academic medical centers have increased their use of advertising to attract patients. While the content of direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical advertisements (ads) has been studied, to our knowledge, advertising by academic medical centers has not. We aimed to characterize advertising by the nation's top academic medical centers. METHODS We contacted all 17 medical centers named...

Academic medical centers and conflicts of interest.

Health Care Reform—The Impact on Academic Health Centers: An Academic Health Center Executive’s Perspective

Academic health centers operate simultaneously in the highly intellectual world of academia and the highly competitive world of health care delivery. As a result of this unique operating circumstance, health care reform will likely exert unique impacts on academic health centers relative to community hospitals and independent providers. This discussion focuses on health care reform from the per...

Academic health centers and health care reform.

There is increasing support for the proposition that academic health centers have a duty to accept broad responsibility for the health of their communities. The Health of the Public program has proposed that centers become directly involved in the social-political process as advocates for reform of the health care system. Such engagement raises important issues about the roles and responsibilit...