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"The allocation and subsequent use of discretionary funds (including state appropriations, tuition, indirect cost recovery [ICR] dollars, earnings from unrestricted endowments) by medical schools has been a topic of great interest for the past several years. Funding from governmental sources at many medical schools has flattened or decreased; pressures on other revenue sources (particularly clinical reimbursement) have limited a medical school’s ability to cross-subsidize academic pursuits; and state, university, and medical school leaders are scrutinizing the link between discretionary funding levels and activities for which the funding is intended. Consequently, departments of internal medicine are reevaluating approaches for distributing these funds in support of constituent divisions and infrastructure."

"To help defray the costs of training, departments of internal medicine must negotiate with their individual teaching hospitals for the fair market value of teaching provided by faculty members. In these negotiations, departments of internal medicine are at a severe disadvantage because there is little information available as to what it should cost them to educate their students."

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