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To the Editor: In response to intense market competition and severe cost pressures, many academic medical centers are attempting to unbundle their complex patterns of conjoint activities and cross-subsidization in order to examine the processes and costs of education, research, and patient care separately. Isolating the costs of medical education, particularly undergraduate medical education, is perhaps the most difficult of these analytic tasks.

In quantifying the teaching efforts of the faculty of the Department of Medicine at Columbia–Presbyterian Medical Center (Jan. 18 issue), Shea et al.¹ elected to count activities that combined clinical service and teaching entirely as teaching time. . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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