Home | Industry Information | Business News | Browse by Publication | F | Family Practice Management

'Just-in-time' business education for family physicians: why try to teach residents practice management when they don't care about it?(OPINION)

Publication: Family Practice Management
Publication Date: 01-MAY-08
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
It's a long-standing truism that many physicians are poor businesspeople. An early lesson of the TransforMed national demonstration project has been that even among the carefully selected participants, many offices had serious deficits in business management.

On the other hand, many are a...

View more below

Read this article now - Try Goliath Business News - FREE!   
You can view this article PLUS...

  • Over 5 million business articles
  • Hundreds of the most trusted magazines, newswires, and journals (see list)
  • Premium business information that is timely and relevant
  • Unlimited Access

Now for a Limited Time, try Goliath Business News - Free for 7 Days!
Tell Me More   Terms and Conditions

Purchase this article for $4.95

Already a subscriber? Log in to view full article

...family physicians doing well financially.

What makes the difference? Family physicians are not often well prepared to be good business managers; they make errors both in failing to get paid for all the work they do and in failing to manage their expenses as carefully as they should. Their practices are just not businesslike businesses. Why does this occur, even though business management has been required part of the family medicine residency curriculum for a long time? It is because...

NOTE: All illustrations and photos have been removed from this article.



More articles from Family Practice Management
Medicare's (un)sustainable growth rate: even paying physicians too lit..., May 01, 2008
Is your practice merger doomed to fall? Before you partner with anothe..., May 01, 2008
The art and science of clinical decision making: thinking about how yo..., May 01, 2008

Looking for additional articles?
Search our database of over 3 million articles.

Looking for more in-depth information on this industry?
Search our complete database of Industry & Market reports by text, subject, publication name or publication date.

About Goliath
Whether you're looking for sales prospects, competitive information, company analysis or best practices in managing your organization, Goliath can help you meet your business needs.

Our extensive business information databases empower business professionals with both the breadth and depth of credible, authoritative information they need to support their business goals. Whether it be strategic planning, sales prospecting, company research or defining management best practices - Goliath is your leading source for accurate information.