The Council of Teaching Hospitals (COTH) of the Association of American Medical Colleges has surveyed its member hospitals on the following subjects: trends in stipends, benefits, budget allocations, funding sources, extra-curricular employment, and night/weekend duty. (Author/PG)

Analyses suggested that house staff salaries are becoming more homogenous across time, although significant interinstitutional differences are related to location, affiliation pattern, ownership, number of house officers employed, number of approved training programs, and percentage of available positions filled. (Editor)

Control mechanisms designed for the entire hospital industry cause severe problems for teaching hospitals. The author presents some of the deficiencies of past and present controls and suggests some approaches which would provide a more equitable treatment of teaching hospitals. (Editor)

One of the less obvious costs of educational programs is the increased volume of work-ups and treatment for hospitalized patients that are ordered by residents. In a hospital with both private teaching and private nonteaching floors, a comparison shows that service charges on teaching floors are 60 percent higher than on nonteaching floors.…

A methodology is outlined that can be used by teaching hospitals in determining their costs of treating patients with a complex mix of diagnoses. It is not held that case mix alone explains all cost differences between teaching and nonteaching hospitals, but that factor must be isolated before examining other variables. (Author/LBH)

The successes and problems of the polyclinic (so named to indicate that many subspecialties of internal medicine and related services are represented) approach are discussed. The polyclinic is described as a means of improving the quality of care and the teaching of ambulatory care in clinics of university teaching hospitals. (Editor/LBH)

The new Peer Review Organizations (PSRO) will review the quality, necessity, and appropriateness of medical care for which payment is made under the terms of the Social Security Act. The many differences between teaching and nonteaching hospitals suggest that it may be inappropriate to evaluate institutional services using a single set of norms of…

Results of the Association of American Medical Colleges' sixth annual survey of income, expense, and general operating information for university-owned teaching hospitals are presented. The survey questionnaire was mailed to 63 hospitals, of which 61 responded. (LBH)

Presents and discusses data concerning income analysis of 43 teaching hospitals. Tables present data for sources of income of hospitals that were awarded state appropriations, and source of income by type of care in teaching hospitals. (PG)

A "system dynamics" model was developed by the University of Vermont's Division of Health Sciences and the Medical Center Hospital of Vermont, the division's affiliated hospital, to anticipate the hospital's utilization by patients in order to plan for future medical students and house staff. The model has proven a useful planning tool…

Presented at the meeting of the Council of Academic Societies, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1969. (IR)

Social security can stifle the teaching hospital's development through increasing expenses and budgetary considerations. These problems are discussed in relation to the hospital organization and university structure in Paris, France. (Author/PG)

The differences between teaching and nonteaching hospitals in complexity and variety of cases seen are described. The results show that teaching hospitals could be expected to cost somewhat more per patient even if case mix were the only factor. (Author/MLW)