MEDICAL REFORM: THE ONE-FACULTY SYSTEM.

Health System Reform in the United States

In 2010, the United States adopted its first-ever comprehensive set of health system reforms in the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Implementation of the law, though politically contentious and controversial, has now reached a stage where reversal of most elements of the law is no longer feasible. The controversial portions of the law that expand affordable health insurance coverage to most U.S. cit...

Faculty Orientations Toward Instructional Reform

Issue 5 Some of the most promising developmental education innovations require that instructors significantly change their classroom practice. For example, instructors may be asked to teach to a more heterogeneous group of students, prepare students for statistics rather than algebra, or attend more explicitly to students’ nonacademic needs. Responsibility for cultivating such behavioral change...

Wisconsin Medical Society Health System Reform Plan.

Predictors of early faculty attrition at one Academic Medical Center

BACKGROUND Faculty turnover threatens the research, teaching and clinical missions of medical schools. We measured early attrition among newly-hired medical school faculty and identified personal and institutional factors associated with early attrition. METHODS This retrospective cohort study identified faculty hired during the 2005-2006 academic year at one school. Three-year attrition rate...

The medical faculty.

The ancient Indian story of the blind men and the elephant, descending to us through the Greeks and to the Japanese through Buddhism and China, reminds us that a single individual can gain only a partial perception of a complex phenomenon in which he is interested, and that his conclusions depend on his own experiences and interactions with that phenomenon, rather than on the totality of the ph...