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What is a Medical School?
By James E. Lewis, PhD What is a medical school? If that is a dumb question, why is it that the current websites for five major allopathic medical schools (of the 141 total) offer neither a statement...
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Proposed U.S. Allopathic and Osteopathic Medical Schools
By James E. Lewis, Sr., Ph.D. The inaugural post of Pattern Analysis described the “new geography” of the 33 medical schools that between 2002 and 2013 had been accredited by either LCME (15) or...
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Life in the “Crease”: Academic Medicine–Where the Knowledge Industry and the...
By James E. Lewis, Ph.D. The “crease” is what I call the interface between the academic world (part of the “knowledge industry”) and the health care delivery world (part of the “health industry”). It...
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Do Academic Medical Practice Financial Structures Inhibit Primary Care...
By James E. Lewis, Ph.D. Peer-reviewed literature, blogs, the popular media, and professional medical meetings are replete with pleas, complaints, laments, and even some good ideas about primary care...
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Will Technology Make Primary Care Doctors “Whole?”
By James E. Lewis, Ph.D. My July column focused on what I see as the adverse effects of academic medical faculty practice fund flows on primary care training and on academic and community primary care...
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Medical School Admissions and Deming’s Parable of the Red Beads
By James E. Lewis, PhD I used to think I was the only one who thought that the root cause of many problems in the American health care delivery system, particularly those associated with quality,...
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The Medical School Class of 2025
By James E. Lewis, Ph.D. The members of the U.S. medical school class of 2025 entered high school this fall. Shocking to think of, isn’t it? More shocking is to wonder what and how to teach when they...
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Wing of Zock Featured in This Week’s Health Wonk Review
InsureBlog’s Hank Stern has posted the “Pre-Thanksgivukkah” edition of Health Wonk Review, which includes the November Pattern Analysis column by Dr. Jim Lewis, “The Medical School Class of 2025.”...
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“Inextricably Intertwined:” Income Streams in Academic Medicine
By James E. Lewis, PhD In the past four decades, many people have said that the triple missions of academic medicine—education, research, and patient care—are “inextricably intertwined.” I even...
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Top 10 Posts of 2013
In case you missed them, here is a roundup of our Top 10 Most Popular Posts of 2013: 1. Proposed U.S. Allopathic and Medical Schools, by James E. Lewis, Ph.D. 2. Matching the Unmatched: The Role of the...
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