title: [Contemplating a university clinical department].
abstract: University clinics combine teaching, research and patient care. Some think that no single person (head of department) can perform all three tasks. Also, the head has to have the political skills necessary to manage the faculty society. The guidelines for university clinics, and for their heads in particular, are: (a) conscious pursuit of optimal quality, (b) giving the highest priority to training house staff and teaching students, (c) providing patient care and (d) ensuring that clinical research should serve the purpose of inspiring scientific attitudes in house staff. The 'product' of a university clinic is neither the sum of its publications nor the cured patient, but the medical specialist delivered to society.
authors.affiliation: Dienst Neus-, Keel- en Oorziekten, Gelaat- en Halschirurgie, Universitair Ziekenhuis St. Rafaël, Leuven, België.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Feenstra
mesh_terms: D000046:Academic Medical Centers; D001530:Belgium; D005180:Faculty, Medical; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency; D008486:Physician Executives; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D012106:Research