title: Impact of managed care on departments of internal medicine.
abstract: Economic forces make managed care inevitable. Despite the complexities of adapting to this new paradigm, if departments of internal medicine take a leadership role in the medical enterprise and successfully develop a primary care component while reducing their reliance on subspecialty medicine, it is likely that because of its size and the talents of its faculty, IM departments will survive and even thrive in a managed care environment.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, School of Medicine.
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Fogelman
mesh_terms: D004503:Education, Medical, Graduate / Q000639:trends; D007388:Internal Medicine / Q000193:education / Q000639:trends*; D008329:Managed Care Programs; D014481:United States