The Tufts partnership for managed care education

Academic Medicine : Journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges
R R PhillipsM A Madoff

Abstract

The authors describe the formation and the academic activities of the Tufts Managed Care Institute, a collaborative venture of Tufts University School of Medicine and Tufts Health Plan, an independent-practice-association (IPA)-model health maintenance organization (HMO). In 1994, the dean of the medical school and the CEO of the HMO recognized the need for collaboration to prepare students and practitioners for high-quality, cost-effective practice in a managed care environment. They established an advisory committee to oversee a six-month feasibility study to interview experts and opinion leaders and identify critical characteristics of the ideally prepared managed care practitioner. In 1995, with start-up funding from the HMO, the institute began its operations as a freestanding enterprise with board representation from the two sponsoring institutions. While many of the institute's programs have been developed for practicing physicians and other health care professionals, this article focuses on the academic activities. For medical students, the approach has been to blend managed care principles and practices into existing courses, problem-based learning cases, and clerkships, rather than creating separate managed care cours...Continue Reading

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Jun 13, 2001·Academic Medicine : Journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges·H K RabinowitzD L Wood
Jun 13, 2001·Academic Medicine : Journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges·R HalpernR R Phillips
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