scholarly journals Trends in the Financing of United States Medical Schools: 1970-1999

2016 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 50
Author(s):  
Philip O Ozuah ◽  
Sheldon L Stick
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Medical School ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Medical Schools ◽  
The United States ◽  
Medical Services ◽  
Tuition Fees ◽  
Federal Support ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Different Sources

We examined 30-year trends in the financing of allopathic medical schools in the United States using data from the Annual Medical School Questionnaire administered to United States medical schools. We calculated relative proportions for total revenues derived from different sources. Federal support for teaching/training/public service represented 18.8% of total revenues in 1970-1971, but only 0.3% of total revenues in 1998-1999. The proportion of revenues derived from state/localgovernment appropriations also declined across this period. In contrast, the proportion of revenues derived from medical services increased substantially. The proportion of revenues derived from tuition/fees, gifts, and endowments remained constant.

scholarly journals FSMB Census of Licensed Physicians in the United States, 2018

2019 ◽  
Vol 105 (2) ◽  
pp. 7-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aaron Young ◽  
Humayun J. Chaudhry ◽  
Xiaomei Pei ◽  
Katie Arnhart ◽  
Michael Dugan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Medical School ◽  
Census Data ◽  
Medical Schools ◽  
The United States ◽  
Geographic Region ◽  
Physician Workforce ◽  
Care Needs ◽  
State Medical Boards

ABSTRACT There are 985,026 physicians with Doctor of Medicine (MD) and Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (DO) degrees licensed to practice medicine in the United States and the District of Columbia, according to physician census data compiled by the Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB). These qualified physicians graduated from 2,089 medical schools in 167 countries and are available to serve a U.S. national population of 327,167,434. While the percentage of physicians who are international medical graduates have remained relatively stable over the last eight years, the percentage of physicians who are women, possess a DO degree, have three or more licenses, or are graduates of a medical school in the Caribbean have increased by varying degrees during that same period. This report marks the fifth biennial physician census that the FSMB has published, highlighting key characteristics of the nation's available physician workforce, including numbers of licensees by geographic region and state, type of medical degree, location of medical school, age, gender, specialty certification and number of active licenses per physician. The number of licensed physicians in the United States has been growing steadily, due in part to an expansion in the number of medical schools and students during the past two decades, even as concerns of a physician shortage to meet health care demands persist. The average age of licensed physicians continues to increase, and more licensed physicians appear to be specialty certified, though the latter finding may reflect more comprehensive reporting. This census was compiled using the FSMB's Physician Data Center (PDC), which collects, collates and analyzes physician data directly from the nation's state medical and osteopathic boards and is uniquely positioned to provide a comprehensive snapshot of information about licensed physicians. A periodic national census of this type offers useful demographic and licensure information about the available physician workforce that may be useful to policy makers, researchers and related health care organizations to better understand and address the nation's health care needs.

scholarly journals The Role of the Medical School Training on Physician Opioid Prescribing Practices: Evidence from Ontario, Canada: Le rôle de la formation à la faculté de médecine à l’égard des pratiques de prescription d’opioïdes des médecins: données probantes d’Ontario, Canada

2020 ◽  
Vol 65 (10) ◽  
pp. 710-720
Author(s):  
Claire de Oliveira ◽  
Tomisin Iwajomo ◽  
Tara Gomes ◽  
Paul Kurdyak
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Medical School ◽  
Medical Schools ◽  
The United States ◽  
Prescribing Patterns ◽  
Opioid Epidemic ◽  
Opioid Prescribing ◽  
Medical School Training ◽  
School Training

Background: Recent research found that physicians who completed medical school training at top-ranked U.S. medical schools prescribed fewer opioids than those trained at lower ranked schools, suggesting that physician training may play a role in the opioid epidemic. We replicated this analysis to understand whether this finding holds for Ontario, Canada. Methods: We used data on all opioid prescriptions written by Ontario physicians between 2013 and 2017 from the Narcotics Monitoring System. Using the Corporate Provider Database and ICES Physician Database, which contain medical school of training, we linked patients who filled opioid prescriptions with their respective prescribing physician. Available data on Canadian medical school rankings were obtained from Maclean’s news magazine. We used regression analysis to assess the relationship between number of opioid prescriptions and medical school ranking. Results: Compared to the United States, average annual number of opioid prescriptions per physician was lower in Ontario (236 vs. 78). Unlike the United States, we found little evidence that physicians trained at lower ranked medical schools prescribed more than their top-ranked school counterparts after controlling for specialty and location of practice. However, primary care physicians trained at non-English-speaking foreign schools prescribed the most opioids even after excluding opioid maintenance therapy–related prescriptions. Conclusion: The role of medical school training on opioid prescribing patterns among Ontario physicians differs from that in the United States likely due to greater homogeneity of curricula among Canadian schools. Ensuring physicians trained abroad receive additional pain management/addiction training may help address part of the opioid epidemic in Ontario.

THE PRESIDENT PAGE

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1951 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 419-420
Author(s):  
PAUL W. BEAVEN
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Medical Education ◽  
Medical School ◽  
Medical Schools ◽  
The United States ◽  
Executive Board ◽  
Pediatric Practice ◽  
Canadian Medical School ◽  
Pediatric Education

THE report of the Committee on Medical Education will appear in full in the minutes of the Executive Board. Your earnest attention to this summary is desired. I shall refer to it only briefly here. I wish to emphasize that here we have a committee with a problem and they have solved it well. The goal they sought was the continuation of the work begun by the Educators' Conferences under the sponsorship of the ICH Committee. Not only have they carried on these conferences, but they have enlarged and improved them. As I have pointed out before, other committees have done equally well with their assignments, but the significance of the work of the Committee on Medical Education is that it was assigned one of the great projects of the ICH Committee. We have not let that committee down nor have we let ourselves down. The Committee on Medical Education has underscored the great object of our society "to establish and maintain the highest possible standard for pediatric education in medical schools and hospitals, pediatric practice and research." This committee made two innovations. Prior to last year the United States and Canada were divided into 10 regions, so that there were 6 to 11 medical schools in each region. Last year it was divided into 8 regions and the Canadian schools met with the United States representatives. This year the Canadian medical school representatives met as Canadians and the conference was held in Toronto. This was done because they have problems individual to themselves and it turned out to be a wise move.

Identity and Vote Overreporting by Bureaucrats: Implications for Public Service Motivation

2016 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 148-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Bednarczuk
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Identity Theory ◽  
The United States ◽  
Public Service Motivation ◽  
Logit Models ◽  
Government Employees ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Using Data

Studies have argued that the higher levels of public service motivation (PSM) found in bureaucrats as compared with others lead to the positive civic and political behaviors seen in government employees. This study extends those findings to see if high PSM could have any negative effects on these same behaviors. Drawing from research on identity theory, it is hypothesized that a salient “public service identity” could contribute to bureaucrats being more apt than others to report that they have voted in elections when they actually had not. Logit models using data covering a span of almost 30 years in the United States find support for the hypothesis. This work suggests that viewing PSM through the lens of identity theory may have broad implications for the field of public administration.

Admission to US Medical Schools

2020 ◽  
pp. 30-51
Author(s):  
Leila E. Harrison ◽  
Christina J. Grabowski ◽  
Leila Amiri ◽  
Radha Nandagopal ◽  
Richard Sanker
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Medical School ◽  
Medical Schools ◽  
The United States ◽  
Depth Information ◽  
Application Process ◽  
Committee Chair ◽  
Selection Processes ◽  
Complex Process ◽  
Admissions Criteria

This chapter includes in-depth information on the medical school application process in the United States (US), the various admissions criteria and selection processes, and the range of interview and assessment modalities used to evaluate applicant competencies. It also provides information about the various pathways aspiring physicians may take to seek admission to medical school. In these sections, evidence is provided highlighting the work that has been done to better understand these areas. The chapter concludes with the important perspectives of an admissions committee chair and a pre-health advisor to further elucidate this complex process.

scholarly journals Number of Eating Occasions and Source of Foods and Drinks Among Young Children in the United States: NHANES, 2009–2014

Nutrients ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 897
Author(s):  
Chloe M. Barrera ◽  
Latetia V. Moore ◽  
Cria G. Perrine ◽  
Heather C. Hamner
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Young Children ◽  
Nutrition Education ◽  
National Health ◽  
The United States ◽  
Health And Nutrition ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Eating Occasions ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Different Sources

An understanding of the source of children’s foods and drinks is needed to identify the best intervention points for programs and policies aimed at improving children’s diets. The mean number and type of eating occasions and the relative proportions of foods and drinks consumed from different sources were calculated among children aged 1–4 years (n = 2640) using data from the 2009–2014 National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys. Children consumed 2.9 meals and 2.4 snacks each day. Among children who received anything from childcare, childcare provided 36.2% of their foods and drinks. The majority of foods and drinks came from stores for all children (53.2% among those receiving anything from childcare and 84.9% among those not). Among children receiving food from childcare, childcare is an important source of foods and drinks. Because most foods and drinks consumed by children come from stores, parents and caregivers may benefit from nutrition education to promote healthful choices when buying foods.

Disaster Curricula in Medical Education: Pilot Survey

2012 ◽  
Vol 27 (5) ◽  
pp. 492-494 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jared Smith ◽  
Matthew J. Levy ◽  
Edbert B. Hsu ◽  
J. Lee Levy
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Medical Education ◽  
Medical School ◽  
Medical Schools ◽  
The United States ◽  
Disaster Medicine ◽  
Pilot Survey ◽  
Course Work ◽  
School Curricula

AbstractIntroductionAn understanding of disaster medicine and the health care system during mass-casualty events is vital to a successful disaster response, and has been recommended as an integral part of the medical curriculum by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). It has been documented that medical students do not believe that they have received adequate training for responding to disasters. The purpose of this pilot study was to determine the inclusion of disaster medicine in the required course work of medical students at AAMC schools in the United States, and to identify the content areas addressed.MethodsAn electronic on-line survey was developed based upon published core competencies for health care workers, and distributed via e-mail to the education liaison for each medical school in the United States that was accredited by the AAMC. The survey included questions regarding the inclusion of disaster medicine in the medical school curricula, the type of instruction, and the content of instruction.ResultsOf the 29 (25.2%) medical schools that completed the survey, 31% incorporated disaster medicine into their medical school curricula. Of those schools that included disaster medicine in their curricula, 20.7% offered disaster material as required course work, and 17.2% offered it as elective course work. Disaster medicine topics provided at the highest frequency included pandemic influenza/severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS, 27.5%), and principles of triage (10.3%). The disaster health competency included most frequently was the ability to recognize a potential critical event and implement actions at eight (27.5%) of the responding schools.ConclusionsOnly a small percentage of US medical schools currently include disaster medicine in their core curriculum, and even fewer medical schools have incorporated or adopted competency-based training within their disaster medicine lecture topics and curricula.>SmithJ, LevyMJ, HsuEB, LevyJL. Disaster curricula in medical education: pilot survey. Prehosp Disaster Med.2012;27(5):1-3.

Migration and the Internet

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 331-342 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas John Cooke ◽  
Ian Shuttleworth
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Unobserved Heterogeneity ◽  
Panel Study ◽  
The United States ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Using Data ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Dynamics Models

It is widely presumed that information and communication technologies, or ICTs, enable migration in several ways; primarily by reducing the costs of migration. However, a reconsideration of the relationship between ICTs and migration suggests that ICTs may just as well hinder migration; primarily by reducing the costs of not moving.  Using data from the US Panel Study of Income Dynamics, models that control for sources of observed and unobserved heterogeneity indicate a strong negative effect of ICT use on inter-state migration within the United States. These results help to explain the long-term decline in internal migration within the United States.

Capturing the Art of Public Service: The Government’s Perspective

Public Voices ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 55
Author(s):  
Tony Carrizales
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Popular Culture ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Public Art ◽  
The United States ◽  
Virtual Museum ◽  
Film And Television ◽  
Government Institutions ◽  
Art Forms

Public Service, in popular culture, can be viewed through many artistic lenses. Although there has been a consistent negative portrayal of government through art forms such as film and television, this research looks to review how government institutions in the United States have used art to provide a positive portrayal of public service. Eight forms of public service art are outlined through a content analysis of the holdings at the Virtual Museum of Public Service. The findings show that government and public entities have historically and continually engaged in promoting public service through art. Many of these public art examples are accessible year round, without limitations, such as buildings, statues, and public structures.

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