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...Duke Med is grateful too. It is affiliated with the center, which is only a few miles from its main hospital, and much prefers to handle such routine checkups here rather than in its own high-priced facilities. Lincoln Community is one of dozens of affiliations and joint ventures that Duke has with local medical facilities spread throughout the 27-county region targeted as its turf. Serving 29,000 registered patients, who made 102,000 visits last year, Lincoln is a gleaming example of Duke's community outreach at work...
...Robert Califf, arguably one of the most important people at Duke Med, is on a flight to Washington, where he is scheduled to lead an international strategy session on how heart-failure drugs should be studied. As director of the Duke Clinical Research Institute, he is charged with doing whatever he can to take the guesswork out of medical care, and he has a specific statistic he wants to change. "Only 15% of the decisions a doctor makes every day are based on evidence," he recites...
Last year, during a review session for Chem 7, four first-years tossed around the idea of studying medicine outside of the pre-med track. The students--Clay Ackerly '01, Noelle S. Sherber '01, Suise Besu '01 and Jamil K. Shamasdin '01--were all intrigued by health care issues and felt that courses like organic chemistry and physics missed the point...
...think as a pre-med it is somewhat narrow to be a health policy concentrator," says Audiey C. Kao, research director of the Institute of Ethics of the American Medical Association in Chicago...
...certainly something that should be included in the pre-med track," he says. "There's only a handful of physicians who have a health policy background...