Urban Medical Centers
Balancing Academic And Patient Care Functions

This volume reports the different ways in which various urban academic health centers are seeking to reposition themselves in order to protect and advance their primary missions of education, biomedical research, and sophisticated patient care.

Introduction -- Overview -- Educating Physicians for the Real World -- The Creation of Partners HealthCare System, Inc. -- Lessons Learned from the Evolution of an Academic Health Care Network and Integrated Delivery System -- Competition: A View from the Midwest -- Positioning an Academic Medical School for Survival: How Many Moving Targets Must We Hit to Make It? -- Reinventing Education in Medical Schools -- Gathering Momentum for the Next Century: Our Long-Range Strategic Plan -- Academic Medical Centers and the Future of Health Care -- The Challenge to a State System -- Perspectives -- Afterword -- Cornell University Medical College Tenth Conference on Health Policy