title: Hospital costs--the medical student component.
abstract: A study of indirect costs which could be attributed to undergraduate teaching in a large affiliated teaching hospital has shown that they are very small. Thus direct university costs in 1975 were $1,800,000 (7-6% of all expenditure at the hospital); indirect costs were $41,000 (approximately 0-2% of the hospital expenditure). It is concluded that the 45% difference in bed costs per day between teaching and non-teaching hospitals from a previous investigation is therefore not the result of the clinical school indirect demands on hospital expenditure.
mesh_terms: D001315:Australia; D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D004504:Education, Medical, Undergraduate; D006748:Hospital Departments; D006784:Hospitals, Teaching; D008505:Medical Staff, Hospital; D013997:Time Factors; D000078329:Workforce