UCI Gets Grant for Managed Care Classes
UC Irvine’s College of Medicine has received a $700,000 grant from PacifiCare of California to create courses geared toward managed health care.
Officials said the courses will teach future physicians administrative, business, technology and managed care skills in addition to medical training.
“It’s vital that doctors in training learn the realities of practicing in the health care delivery systems of the future,” Ira Lott, UCI’s chair of pediatrics, said. “The most effective way to teach that is through a collaboration between industry and academia.”
PacifiCare doctors also will be involved in the design and implementation of the new courses, officials said.
The new courses “will enhance our medical education program so that we can prepare our students and primary care residents for practice in the next century,” said Joseph Scherger, chair of the UCI department of family medicine.
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