Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to M Lenaz.
Research ventures between health maintenance organizations and academic medical centers can prove mutually beneficial. The different priorities and perspectives of the two institutions with regard to health care and research may prove to be a learning process.
One of the central issues driving integrated system development is educating physicians in managed care. Managed-care organizations need to become more involved in medical education, especially its clinical teaching functions. This affects largely the ambulatory aspects of care and generalist physician training. Academic medical centers and managed-care organizations can achieve this mission through collaboration.
Academic medical centers by virtue of their complex nature have made immense contributions to the education of professionals, application of research, and providing clinical services for people. Today they are being faced with many new challenges. One of these challenges, requiring new efforts, will be to incorporate leadership education into the curriculum. There are no other institutions more poised to assist in training future health-care leaders.
New training initiatives in ambulatory medicine are being developed in medical schools and residency training programs due to the need to expand education in ambulatory medicine. Most diagnostic and management decisions are being made in outpatient settings. In this context the perception of what constitutes effective teaching in the ambulatory setting needs to be addressed. The skills of questioning, role modeling, emphasizing general principles, and concept comprehension are similar in both inpatient teaching and outpatient teaching. The approach to problem solving, site of teaching, and provision of feedback may differ from inpatient teaching.