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  • Title: Academic medicine and quality of medical care.
    Author: Eldar R.
    Journal: Croat Med J; 2004 Jun; 45(3):256-8. PubMed ID: 15185412.
    Abstract:
    Academic medicine comprises education, research, and medical care, respectively provided by medical schools, research institutions, and teaching hospitals. Thus far, academic medicine has been unsuccessful in establishing, protecting, promoting, and improving the quality of care. Its role in that area should therefore be reconsidered. Quality improvement activities require constant planning and perseverance, explicit standards of good practice, quantitative measurement, and comparison with previous performance or the performance of others. Preparedness and willingness to change attitude, approach, and behavior are pivotal to the success of such activities. Early exposure of medical students to the principles and practices of quality of care improvement would be a starting point for a life long process of experience-based learning that allows physicians to change and improve practice through the application of relevant knowledge and skills. It is essential that changes in graduate and postgraduate education and training be introduced, to improve an understanding of the importance of focusing on the care process from the patient's perspective as well as on the need for interdisciplinary cooperation and team performance as prerequisites for good medical care. Their education should also emphasize the measurement of the quality of delivered care, provide an understanding of the demand of society for accountability and how to meet it, as well as competence in using the principles and practice of quality improvement to provide, document, and improve the quality of care in institutions of academic medicine.
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