title: Now is the Time for Psychology to Support the Transformation of Academic Health Centers.
abstract: Psychologists have made important contributions in academic health centers (AHC), but the reputation of psychology as a discipline has been mixed, by turns viewed as a superfluous soft science, or seen as an important contributor to the AHC mission. AHCs currently face exceptional challenges to the viability of AHCs, including: planned alterations from fee-for-service to value-based funding that requires high quality at lower cost; and rising demands to demonstrate competence in trainees. Now more than ever, psychologists can and must help AHCs to meet these challenges.
authors.affiliation: West Virginia University School of Medicine, 3110 MacCorkle Avenue, SE, Charleston, WV, 25304, USA. jlinton@hsc.wvu.edu.
authors.forename: John C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Linton
mesh_terms: D000046:Academic Medical Centers; D006801:Humans; D011584:Psychology; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D014481:United States
keywords: Academic health centers; Academic medicine; Behavioral science in medical education; Health care transformation