Development of a campus-based satellite medicine clinic.

Abstract

The clinical facilities of many American medical schools are geographically separate from the main campuses of their parent universities. Traditionally, medical schools and teaching hospitals have made little effort to attract university faculty and staff members as patients. Academic medical centers have tried various strategies to maintain, expand, and broaden the patient population necessary for medical education, clinical research, and fiscal solvency. The University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine has established a campus-based ambulatory clinic to encourage university faculty and staff members to seek care from medical school physicians and to use its teaching hospital several miles away. This approach may be applicable to other institutions where the hospital and the major university campus are located at different sites.