Professional interaction in academic health centers.

A survey was made of 106 medical schools to determine the presence of the academic health center concept in the United States. Five centers were selected for an in-depth study of the attitudes and behavior of health center students, faculty members, and administrators in the professions of dentistry, medicine, nursing and basic science. The results were based on the return of 2,399 questionnaires which investigated the attitudes and behavior of the groups described relative to the health center concept. It was found that attitudes and behavior relative to the health center concept were different among professions, among various statuses of people within professions and among those persons functioning within the various health center administrative structures.