A Physician's Guide to Health Care Management

(Paperback)-This book answers the growing need for concise, practical information about the business aspects of medicine. The number of required courses, electives, and lectures on this topic is steadily growing. Many of the professors and students we spoke with acknowledged that such formal training on these issues will become increasingly important. However, most schools still do not require med students to take classes on this topic, so the book needs to be reasonably priced. Students need this information but if it's not necessary for class or to pass the USMLE, they won't spend a lot of money on it. Written for medical students, residents, and physicians interested in medical management, it covers issues such as the forces shaping health care delivery, physician management skills, economic aspects of managed care, medical, scientific and legal considerations in health care delivery and business aspects of medical management. There is a growing need for more instruction on healthcare management, but due to the rapidly-changing nature of this topic, the focus must be on the skills and theory behind medical management, rather than on specifics. Focuses on principles and skills that will translate into any system rather than on specifics of the current system making this a book which is practical beyond the present Comprehensive, concise, and clearly professional