Date of Award

2003

Embargo Period

8-1-2024

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Doctor of Health Administration

College

College of Health Professions

First Advisor

Michael T. Ryan

Second Advisor

Donald L. Fowler

Third Advisor

Thomas E. McIlwain

Fourth Advisor

Elizabeth A. Wennar

Abstract

Today's healthcare market presents many challenges to academic healthcare centers and community-based physicians given the constrained resources and competition for healthcare dollars. Never before has the business sector infiltrated the healthcare market to this extent. Monies previously directed toward graduate medical education from government resources and cost-shifting practices have been abolished, and these changes have jeopardized the founding missions governing academic medical centers. However, community-based private practitioners-both educated and clinically trained at these centers of higher learning, provide an enormous pool of expertise to help rectify many current problems. Collaboration between these private practitioners and the medical centers could create positive change, to the mutual benefit of both groups. This research examines the problems facing medical schools in meeting their three-fold mission of education, clinical care, and research; and it presents a model for collaboration that could aid both the stakeholders and the healthcare system as a whole.

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