PEDIATRICS Vol. 71 No. 6 June 1983, pp. 978-979
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Teaching Hospitals Today and the Challenge for Excellence

JOSEPH W. ST. GEME JR MD1

1 Department of Pediatrics, UCLA School of Medicine, Harbor/UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California

The contemporary pediatric chairman exists in an extraordinary professional milieu. The challenge for academic leaders in this deacde becomes more rigorous with each passing day. No longer will the traditional attributes of teacher, clinician, and biomedical researcher suffice. The chairman must also become a competitive academic-administrative leader with additional skills in personnel management and entrepreneurial business pursuits. At the same time, the arena in which he or she toils, the teaching hospital, has become an economic battle-ground.

Competition for patient population and teaching material in our academic medical centers is intense. Can we meet it? Nonteaching community hospitals surround every teaching institution. These hospitals provide primary and secondary hospital care with much less fuss.