title: Funding the educational mission: challenges to departments of psychiatry.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The authors review and discuss challenges to funding the educational missions of psychiatry departments.
  
  
  METHODS
  The authors conducted a literature search and also provide examples from their department and lessons learned from business organizations that are applicable to academic departments.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The authors discuss and analyze department funding streams, with emphasis on those applicable to education and suggest a number of strategies that flow from an analysis of costs.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Departments are adjusting to environments of relative scarcity. The success of these adjustments will depend on departments' ability to understand their costs, control them, and develop alternative sources of revenue.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, College of Human Medicine, College of Osteopathic Medicine, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA. magenj@msu.edu
authors.forename: Jed
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Magen
authors.forename: Madhvi
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Richards
mesh_terms: D000046:Academic Medical Centers / Q000191:economics; D002202:Capital Financing / Q000191:economics; D003363:Cost Control / Q000191:economics; D004501:Education, Medical / Q000191:economics; D007396:Internship and Residency / Q000191:economics; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000191:economics / Q000193:education*; D012577:Schools, Medical / Q000191:economics*; D014481:United States