Reinhardt John W
Dr. Reinhardt is Professor, Department of Adult Restorative Dentistry, University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Dentistry.
J Dent Educ. 2015 Dec;79(12):1393-5.
Educational patient care clinics are becoming an increasingly important source of revenue for dental schools. Revenue from clinics can help offset the rising cost of dental education. In addition, those clinics represent a source of income over which the schools have reasonably direct control. Recently, a group of nine U.S. dental schools conducted a detailed financial survey of their clinics and shared the confidential results with each other. The purpose of their analysis was to develop benchmarks for key factors related to clinical financial productivity and expenses and to define best practices to guide improvements at each school. The survey found significant variations among the nine schools in revenue produced by predoctoral students and by postdoctoral residents. There were similar variations for levels of clinical staffing. By sharing the results of the survey with each other, the individual schools gained a strong understanding of the business strengths or weakness of their own clinical programs. That information gave each school's leaders the opportunity to investigate how they might improve their clinical fiscal sustainability.
教育性患者护理诊所正日益成为牙科学院越来越重要的收入来源。诊所的收入有助于抵消牙科教育不断上涨的成本。此外，这些诊所是学校能够合理直接控制的收入来源。最近，美国的九所牙科学院对其诊所进行了详细的财务调查，并相互分享了保密结果。他们分析的目的是为与临床财务生产率和费用相关的关键因素制定基准，并确定最佳实践以指导各学校的改进。调查发现，九所学校在博士生和博士后住院医师产生的收入方面存在显著差异。临床人员配备水平也有类似差异。通过相互分享调查结果，各学校对自己临床项目的业务优势或劣势有了深刻的了解。这些信息让各学校的领导有机会研究如何提高其临床财务可持续性。
