title: Changing the course of things: costs enter medical education.
abstract: The costs of health care, and the physician's role in generating them, are subjects that more and more often are being taught in medical schools and graduate medical training programs. Virtually all of these programs are focused on physicians' use of hospital services, particularly diagnostic procedures, but there is a wider goal: development of a different physician attitude toward cost, quality of care, alternative treatments, and how they all interrelate.
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D019411:Clinical Laboratory Techniques / Q000191:economics*; D003363:Cost Control; D004501:Education, Medical / Q000639:trends*; D006784:Hospitals, Teaching; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency / Q000639:trends*; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D010819:Physician's Role; D012380:Role; D014481:United States