Business Aspects of Infectious Diseases
| Autor: | Marvin J. Tenenbaum, Russell M. Petrak |
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| Rok vydání: | 2002 |
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| Zdroj: | Clinical Infectious Diseases. 34:420-420 |
| ISSN: | 1537-6591 1058-4838 |
| DOI: | 10.1086/324577 |
| Popis: | Sir—On behalf of the Clinical Affairs Committee (CAC) of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA), we want to express our appreciation and gratitude to Dr. Joiner and colleagues for assessing the adequacy of fellowship training in our specialty [1]. As the IDSA attempts to respond to the needs of the trainees who are beginning a dynamic, exciting and challenging career in infectious diseases (ID), we applaud the willingness of the Training Program Director’s Committee to determine how graduates evaluate their experiences—information that was not sought in their initial report on fellowship training in ID [2] but was incorporated into the 1998 IDSA membership survey [3]. The Committee’s stated intention to incorporate the results of the survey into recommendations for changing the design of training programs is the best guarantee that fellowships will remain enlightening, educational, and pertinent preparations for careers in ID. In light of this commitment and the fact that the majority of IDSA members are now clinicians, we note with interest the finding that 190% of the fellows surveyed found their training lacking with respect to the business aspects of medicine, personnel management, billing, coding, practice marketing, and dealing with managed care contracts. We agree with the authors’ statement that “it is rare |
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