Managed care education: what medical students are telling us.

Purpose: To examine graduating medical students' perceptions of the adequacy of instruction in managed care and in 11 curricular content areas identified by experts as a necessary part of managed care education. This study sought to determine whether medical students perceived these content areas as relevant to managed care and to evaluate the extent to which students' perceptions of the adequacy of instruction varied as a function of managed care penetration in the locations of their respective medical schools.

Method: Data from the Association of American Medical Colleges' 1999 Medical School Graduation Questionnaire (GQ) were analyzed.