Influences of a future corporate health system on medical education

Abstract

Corporate attention to problems in health care delivery has grown over the last decade. As this focus by the “purchasers” of medical care increases business and industry influence on health policy decisions, significant changes may come about in the delivery system, and eventually in medical education. Whether the evolving corporate design for health care best serves consumer interests is less clear than how the medical profession and medical educators will fare in the next twenty years.