Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents: Academia and the health care system -- The teaching, research, and clinical triad -- Faculty practice plans -- Academic health centers and their communities: "town and gown" -- Strategic planning and external markets -- The academic health center as a tertiary referral center and exporter of expertise -- Medical quality management in academic health centers -- Clinical quality, risk-adjustment, and outcome measures in academic health centers -- Legislation and the academic health center -- Institutional and professional liability in the academic health center -- Cost management in the academic health center -- Information systems in academic health centers -- Training medical managers at the academic health center -- Academic health center managed health care plans -- A strategic planning model for successful academic health center patient care interventions -- Academic health centers and the future of health care.