Litigation involving medical faculty and academic medical centers, 1950-1991

Academic competencies for medical faculty.

INTRODUCTION Physicians and basic scientists join medical school faculties after years of education. These individuals are then required to function in roles for which they have had little preparation. While competencies needed to perform in medical school, residency, and practice are defined, there is little guidance for faculty. METHODS An expert advisory group of the Faculty Futures Initia...

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.

Understanding academic medical centers: Simone's Maxims.

INTRODUCTION Academic medical centers today represent a unique fusion of traditional academia, hospital functions, several levels of education, and, above all, patients. They are complex organizations trying to discharge an often conflicting melange of responsibilities. This complexity has grown in recent years with the increasingly rapid rate of change (1), stressing both faculty and leadershi...

A letter to the editor: under-represented minority faculty in academic medical centers.