Elephants in Academic Medicine

Economists on academic medicine: elephants in a porcelain shop?

The nat i on ’ s academic health centers (AHCs) educate and train our health professionals, and many from other nations. They provide cutting-edge tertiary care for Americans and for many desperate foreigners who have lost all hope for relief at home. Finally, they are the locus of the basic and applied biomedical research that advances the state of the art in medicine for the world. AHCs’ high...

Academic medicine in Singapore.

Academic medicine.

Professor J. D. Campbell, E. Garrett*, L. A. Headrick, M. C. Hosokawa*, M. LeFevre*, D. R. Mehr*, D. Parker-Oliver*, E. Ringdahl*, W. Steinmann, J. Stevermer, D. C. Vinson*, H. A. Williamson*, S. C. Zweig* Associate Professor J. Belden, D. Cravens*, K. Everett*, A. B. Fitzsimmons, K. Y. Kane*, J. Kapp*, S. Kinkade*, K. Kochendorfer*, R. Koopman*, E. J. Lindbloom*, C. Reust*, D. Wen*, A. Whaley-...

Careers in academic medicine.

At this meeting at the Royal College of Physicians (RCP), established academics and members of grant awarding bodies advised an audience, predominantly comprising trainees pursuing or contemplating a career in clinical science, on why, when and how to tackle such a career path in the current climate. There has arguably never been a more exciting time to be involved in clinical science. In this ...

[Academic medicine and care medicine].

En los últimos años, quienes hemos trabajado en los ámbitos de la salud, la educación y el desarrollo social hemos podido constatar la importancia creciente de la compleja relación que hay entre la medicina académica, la salud de la población, la medicina asistencial y los valores sociales. Todos ellos se nutren recíprocamente y unos dan mayor pertinencia a los otros. Esta trama ha recibido, a ...