Financial responsibility of hospitalized patients who left against medical advice: medical urban legend?

Background: Physicians may counsel patients who leave against medical advice (AMA) that insurance will not pay for their care. However, it is unclear whether insurers deny payment for hospitalization in these cases.

Objective: To review whether insurers denied payment for patients discharged AMA and assess physician beliefs and counseling practices when patients leave AMA.

The long-term impact of preclinical education on medical students' opinions about radiology.

Rationale And Objectives: It has been previously shown that integrating radiology teaching into the first year of medical education has an immediate positive effect on medical students' attitudes toward the practice of radiology. The purpose of this study is to determine whether these changes in attitude persist through the clinical years of training and whether preclinical exposure to radiology has a long-term effect on medical students' opinions about radiology and radiologists.

Materials And Methods: The first-year medical curriculum at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine was revised between the 2003 and 2004 academic years, with 2.

Preclinical medical student training in radiology: the effect of early exposure.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to determine whether an integrated radiology curriculum in the first year of medical school changes medical students' attitudes toward radiology or affects their knowledge of radiologic principles.

Subjects And Methods: The first-year medical curriculum of a medical school was revised between the 2003 and 2004 academic years to introduce more didactic radiology teaching. Dedicated radiology lectures were introduced, and radiology consult sessions became integral to problem-based learning sessions.