TY  - JOUR
T1  - Financing Graduate Medical Education: Sorting Out the Confusion
AU  - Covey, Aaron S.
AU  - Friedlaender, Gary E
Y1  - 2003/08/01
N1  - 
JO  - The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery
SP  - 1594
EP  - 1604
VL  - 85
IS  - 8
N2  - 
At the Annual Meeting of the Academic Orthopaedic Society in November 2001, Kenneth M. Ludmerer, author of Time to Heal: American Medical Education from the Turn of the Century to the Era of Managed Care 
1 , stressed that education is the academic health center's reason for being 
2 . (An academic health center refers to one of the 125 recognized institutions in the United States that has a medical school, a faculty practice plan, and an associated hospital. The term includes closely affiliated hospitals.) These centers are currently facing fierce competition from private markets, increasing pressure to self-support their varied and costly social missions, and shrinking federal support in the form of graduate medical education funding. As these institutions are being threatened financially, it is reasonable to be concerned about the quality of education that they provide.

SN  - 0021-9355
M3  - doi: 
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ER  -