title: Cost control, primary care initiatives challenge teaching hospitals.
abstract: Pressures currently affecting medical schools and teaching hospitals are detailed. Although cost containment poses special problems for teaching hospitals, physicians can help hold down cost. Primary care initiatives and specialty redistribution, as well as the classification of "staff" and "private" patients, and planning agencies also are exerting pressures.
mesh_terms: D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D004503:Education, Medical, Graduate / Q000639:trends*; D006784:Hospitals, Teaching / Q000191:economics*; D010821:Physicians, Family / Q000600:supply & distribution; D014481:United States