Medicine cut off from its roots: Context matters in medical education

Health Affairs

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1357-1361

  Baron, Richard J ^a,b  

^a Greenhouse Internists   (United States)

^b AMERICAN BOARD OF INTERNAL MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH CENTER; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICINE; NOTE; PATIENT CARE;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; COMMUNITY MEDICINE; EDUCATION, MEDICAL; HUMANS; PATIENT-CENTERED CARE; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 54349096546     PISSN: 02782715     EISSN: 02782715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.27.5.1357     Document Type: Note

References (11)

1. F.W. Peabody, "The Care of the Patient," Journal of the American Medical Association 88, no. 12 (1927): 877-882.
2. A. Flexner, Medical Education in the United States and Canada: A Report to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (New York: Carnegie Foundation, 1910);
3. and A. Flexner, An Autobiography (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1940), 71, 74.
4. A.M. Chesney, The Johns Hopkins Hospital and the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine: A Chronicle, vol. 3 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1963), 179-180.
5. Ibid., 182.
6. L.D. Hill and J.L Madara, "Role of the Urban Academic Health Center in U.S. Health Care," Journal of the American Medical Association 294, no. 17 (2005): 2219-2220.
7. Institute of Medicine, Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the Twenty-first Century (Washington: National Academies Press, 2001), 191.
8. R.J. Baron and C.K. Cassel, "Twenty-first-Century Primary Care: New Physician Roles Need New Payment Models," Journal of the American Medical Association 299, no. 13 (2008): 1595-1597.
9. R.J. Baron, "Quality Improvement with an Electronic Health Record: Achievable, but Not Automatic," Annals of Internal Medicine 147, no. 8 (2007): 549-552.
10. M. Cooke et al., "American Medical Education 100 Years after the Flexner Report," New England Journal of Medicine 355, no. 13 (2006): 1339-1344.
11. On the need for care coordination, see T. Bodenheimer, "Coordinating Care: A Perilous Journey through the Health Care System," New England Journal of Medicine 358, no. 10 (2008): 1064-1071.